Nocturnal Programmer

Alright, here goes another…

Onam is a state festival of Kerala. Onam is supposed to be the time when king Mahabali comes back to Kerala to visit his people. He was kicked out of Kerala once by the fourth avatar of Vishnu (god of instantiation like wabbit would say)  for being nice.  Its the first instance of suppression by a nazi god against the south indians, the second being rama kicking ravan.

However I hold a point of view that some stories are misinterpreted by people despite the writer making obvious clues for better judgment on the readers part. At any point of time, the story teller has good faith. Its the people who are dumb.

These so called stories are told to explain ancient indian wisdom called the Vedanta in contemporary scenes. The actual prose in esoteric Sanskrit goes like

“Yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati Bharata; Abhyutthanam adharmasya tadatmanam srijamyaham. Paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya cha dushkritam; Dharma-samthapanarthaya sambhavami yuge yuge.”

which literally translates to,

“Whenever the balance of the universe is disturbed by external interference from any of its parts, then I reveal Myself as the Power of eternal balancing. For the protection of those who are in harmony, and the rectification of everything disharmonious, I incarnate Myself at every juncture of time.”

But I like Swami Chinmayananda’s explanation,

“From time to time an ancient philosophy needs an intelligent reinterpretation in the context of the new times; men of wisdom, prophets and seers must guide the common man to effectively apply the ancient laws to his present pattern of life. Whenever such a great Master arrives to re-establish the old truths and teach his generation to efficiently face the present with the values of the old ideals, that great person will be considered by his generation as a God-Man or an Avatar.”

However the Irony is most of the time, every “intelligent interpretation” is miscommunicated by second level teachers for political and religious benefit; a popular one being attributing Vedanta to extremist Hinduism, which in fact is just general wisdom of people of India. I feel that this is exactly what the philosophy means; every misinterpretation is ought to be corrected every time. Someday, we’ll have a super distilled model where theres no loophole like those refined law statements. :P

So in essence, I feel its the story teller or interpreter who is the avatar than the protagonist of the story he writes. I think Wachowski Brothers in that respect is the latest avatar, because they were trying to interpret this very same Vedanta too. But then again, most who’ve seen the movie just think the Matrix is cool, and forget the point. Guess we still need better interpreters :P

Fuck this world anyways, Happy Onam :)

R: “Hey.. look over there, thats Beauty!”
N: Shrugs.. “you’ve bestial tastes pal…”
R: hah.. “Well.. maybe you got it wrong, but then her real name is Beauty”
N: hmm “theres still hope for you…”

following this conversation, I (R) happened to meet with a videographer who is into local tv serials, but direly aspires to be a world class movie maker. it was a day with a topic on beauty Read more…

One day, Ravindranath Jr, a friend of mine, showed me a poem he wrote. In it he was making a comparison to Icarus who tried to fly with wings of wax seeking the sun, only to fall down when he reached eventually.

He was basically referring to life’s difficulties and that the wings of wax symbolizes our hopes, our aspirations, the dreams,the illusions; and we search for the sun. That is the truth. But the irony is that, if we ever actually find the sun, the wax will melt and we fall like Icarus, but we still are on that quest. Icarus represents the metaphysical rebellion within us, like he himself put it.
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