The categorization taught to us when we were kids: "living beings", "non-living beings" seems incomplete to me. I strongly believe we need to rectify it and compile one essential division, the third category "DREAMERS".Yes i am a DREAMER, unlike the tradition of living beings, more than hemoglobin to carry my oxygen, i need a dose of dream to keep me alive. But i am COWARD when it comes to putting plans into actions. I get inspired by what Kangana Ranaut dared to do at the age of 16, what made Virat Kohli score a centuray for ranji at 18 right after the cremation ceremony of his dad, what took Vidya Balan, not to loose her courage after being expelled by 8 movies at once( being called jinx), she did not took a backseat. They all moved ahead, with head held high.
There haters turned there lovers, there discourage-rs turned there fans, there family called them their pride. Nobody shouts at you; when you are a shining star, they accumulate your shine and light up there houses.
Apart from being DREAMER, we have nothing in common. I have layers of fear upon me, relative to fate, uncertainty, family's pride, society ("log kya kahenge" has killed more dreams than anything else in this world) and yes with social pressure of wedding probabilty, i have a tagline easily vomit-able by anyone to me "arey ab tu kuch ajeeb karegi to tujhse kaun shaadi karega". LOL, first of all, these self acclaimed social police needs to understand, i need not to bribe a guy to marry me, i need not to mob floors to make a guy marry me, i need not to stay in Abaya to prove my etiquette in order to convince a guy to marry me. Being out of the box is being Different, being different is being myself, then why do i have to grill myself under self-identity crisis.... just because i am a DREAMER?
Luckily,I got to meet a random stranger few days back (who is no more a stranger indeed,and the ones who used to be my close buddies ain't close anymore, strange! isn't it? ), though he disagrees upon me on several issues, but we have a common thought here: the world is made up of tiniest particles called electrons, protons and neurons; we made a special category for people like me "MORONS". Indeed, he understands all the noises underneath my silence, my emotions through multimedia emoticons and therefore he recommended, that i should be following "Shri Bhagwat Geeta" as he believed in its eternal power of healing and guiding.
Benefit of being a DREAMER: whenever you read or hear any audio/visual, your imagination starts running as an integral part of your neuronal circuit. The chapter one of the holy book introduced me to Lord Krishna and his disciple Arjuna. Arjuna was on battlefield, and when he overlooked the ground, he got to know, if he has to win, he has to defeat his own guru, relatives and ;loved ones. I was the Arjuna here, my eyes did not read beyond the line " i have to keep my weapons down, i cant see the blood of my loved ones taking me to the ownership of my kingdom". I saw my self imaginatively standing at the door step of my home, pulled down by emotions :constantly urging me not to move ahead. I was somehow bowing down to my situations. Being answerable to the social circle of my family and extended family members, the immediate neighbors, the not so immediate and not so pleasant neighbors who might make vague stories if i crossed the boundaries, even the street dogs who were eyeing my each move each day wont stop barking at me if i made any mistake in their opinion! After all, it is all about the difference of opinion, if it shall match to their expectations, i am the best, if i don't live up to what they expect, i am the worst. There is no other way of settlement for them. But then Lord Krishna told Arjuna,( and it seemed he was saying it to me) "Karmanya vadhikaraste, ma phaleshu kada chana". It means, do your deeds, you have been granted this life to fulfill a purpose, fulfill the desires of your destiny, you have to work for it, irrespective of worrying about the results. If you shall be fearful of the tides ahead, you shall never dare to swim cross the ocean. And that was the moment i could see myself with swords and other weapons (dreams) held up again with desire to go ahead on the battlefield. Yes, it took patience, intelligence, strategy, and logicial approach for Arjuna to defy the CHAKRA, though i don't want to mislead myself with fake reassurances that i have all of them. But unless you try, you never know how strong you are. Sometimes trying is as important as Winning the battle. After reading that very page of the holy book i was in state of Ecstasy as if i drugged some pain reliever. I could feel the rush of positivity and self belief with-in once again. All the arguments and voices in my head were fainting, i could feel as if Lord Krishna himself walked by me and told me to go ahead and explore the world the way i want. There are no limitations to me now apart from the one's i set for myself. After-all, "you play to win the idea of loosing". I am really sure of one thing now,if i couldn't be a good example, i shall at-least end up being a GOOD WARNING :)
Thank you friend for awakening my creepy and over-worried soul, to more charged, channelized and meaningful energy ;by introducing me to Shri Bhagwat Geeta. Thank you dear brain for your imaginative tacts which lead me to a meaningful conclusion :)
PASSIONATE TROUBLEMAKER (JAZMYNE)

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ReplyDeleteshantanu das
Hey, nice blog and i really enjoyed reading the same however we are yet to explore alot of things about that holy book"Geeta".
ReplyDeletei see that you have mentioned a very nice shlok from Geeta "Karmanya vadhikaraste, ma phaleshu kada chana". The word karma here states different thing however we people understand it in our convenient n meaning ful way.
As rightly said by our elders that incomplete knowledge of anything is always harmful so better we try to explore the whole thing in the way it was told.,:)
Your well wisher
Krishna
yes, indeed it has several meanings and mind fetches the one which is the most tangible according to our situation. :)
DeleteSuperb work, passionate trouble maker , u wrote all ur heart ����
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