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

rak is a great fan of movies, not for their smart alecky wit nor masala item numbers(lar.. stop grinning), but their ability as an art form that can capture life to be relished by more than one sense organ

have a life! quite a common pre-abandonment signal.
bull apart, there are some interests or rather traits of an individual that makes him stand out as exceptional. Some persue art for the soul, and some to be pedantic, taking pride in their retention.. our videographer pal in context, sees movies as a form of art. Being in the showbiz he must’ve had lot to answer to a general passerby, about the ego and life of the top players, about the unsung heroes of inspiration, about the travelogues, about the promiscuity of heroines, about the self proclaimed accomplishments. the question to him was rather simple, for we asked for his best movies and role models, against which I now possess a rich list- or rather his very soul.

beauty is perceived by many at angles that are outside the periphery of consciousness of many others. outside because of lack of awareness of the more subtle realm. he despises block buster hollywood for they just try to be technologically pompous. much like if da vinci attempted jaconde in photoshop :P he belives that movies has to be about simpler yet profound aspects of life such as in french, iranian and german art flicks. the expression is most celebrated when seen capturing such beautiful aspects of life and being empathized by the larger minds. much like one of his favorite movies quote “no man can rightly call himself a perfumer, unless he has proved his worth in that hallowed place”

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.

However I find this a pessimistic approach to take resort in such philosophy during hard times. This modal represents the “no point” desperation of individual entering life’s realities. Installing philosophy in this perspective is sheer misuse of biological processing/imagination. That is, to think that life’s all messed up and desperately trying to think above the system. Desperate because others around us cant think in our shoes. They seem not to get the point, our “point” rather. Philosophy apart… why didn’t Icarus be smart enough to get down, get a proper wing made and try flying higher? Like Wright brothers! :P We are thinking using complex systems. Instead get down to the basics. If you can analyze… our “thinking”, feeling of “aham” or the feeling of “me”, comes from the processor called the brain. The brain is an organ system, if interconnected neurons. Neurons are simple basically and its their complexity in wiring that makes “us” intelligent to “think”. Getting down… We realize that its nature at play. In this respect… go back in history. Why did simple cells decide to evolve into complex systems? Or why didn’t they, in some other way? Why didn’t they get desperate and philosophical? Because that wasn’t just the right way to do things! Nature… “selects” to the right way of doing things automatically . It’s like Lego building blocks that snap in place only one way! So my point is, the human psyche is just another of nature’s chaos seeking order. We are still evolving or permuting towards “order”. It’s wiser to move on… and try something else… and be cautious in the tread or be selected out. Just like cells are nature, thinking is nature… society is nature.. “life’s difficulties” are natures challenges. So.. Icarus died… Because he couldn’t adapt. Stories of Icarus are pointers to lessons that have to be learnt so that similar mistake is not made again. Stories of Icarus do NOT describe “no point” whine, but rather tell us to be wiser in our endeavors.

So where should one place philosophy? The thing is philosophy is not about sitting and whining. It may help you understand about social difficulties , about the social fabric or the non existence of it, about the pretensions and all that. It’s just that sometimes, some things inspire people. They see stuff in stuff and come out with stuff. That’s why you have artists and painters and poets. That’s how you have culture. But sometimes philosophy is needed to understand things and to find a way out of it. First you have to define something and why that is… before u can find a solution. Actually there are a lot of things that defy human logic.