Anger and Vengeance

Anger and Vengeance

Two days ago I heard a story narrated by Sri Sivakumar in Sun TV in a programme called ‘Aanmeega Kathaigal’ in Tamil. I reproduce translation of it in my own words as I understood:

A  sadhu while walking along with his chela  noticed  a man angrily biting his chappal . The sadhu wondered what exactly was wrong. So he asked the chela to enquire about it. The aide went to the man and did his enquiry about the strange behavior of the man. The man said, “Sir I am extremely angry . I bought this pair of slippers 3 days ago and isn’t comfortable.  Not only that, it bites me on my ankle and I am seeing corns develope which hurt me. One slipper of the pair I threw away, and I am taking revenge on this one by biting it and hurting it back.”

The aide narrated the man’s version and added “The fellow is mad, and nothing can be done to appease him and improve him. He is beyond repair. We have to be wary of him”. The guru smiled and asked, “What have you learnt from this?”. The disciple was silent and the Guru went on “When one is angry one loses control over oneself and pushes oneself to take vengeance. One resorts to eccentric behavior which others term as mad”

If there is resemblance of the man’s behaviour to that of  Aam Aadmi Party chief and  of few in Indian National Congress, I assure you it is  coincidence

Jai Bharat

Coat of Arms

Coat of Arms

Two decades ago I worked for a Scottish Company as a senior Installation Engineer for their projects. I had presented a small statue of Krishna  (Venugopal) in sandalwood to my Glaswegian counterpart. He reciprocated by presenting a porcelain plaque on which was printed the Coat of Arms of the city of Glasgow which looks like this:

 

Let me explain the insignia:

There’s the tree that never grew

There’s the bird that never flew

 There’s the fish that never swam

There’s the bell that never rang

You can read the history behind it from the net.

As I was reminiscing by looking at it again, I couldn’t help grinning by replacing the tree, the bird, the fish, and the bell with real life characters. As my wife was passing by I was quick to wipe my grin, because she always secretively thought I was a crackpot laughing when alone. She doesn’t realize the comedy scenes I watch on our English news channels and some stupid panelists calling themselves as experts are real ticklers.

I reproduce the thought in my mind. I thought of the PM who never fought an election. I thought of an MP who never attended a session. I thought of a nominated MP who never spoke in a debate. I thought of a cabinet minister who never attended a cabinet meeting….

There are many more like a journalist who doesn’t read , a general who never fought a war, a writer who never wrote a book, a singer who never sang, a commoner who was never frisked in an air-port, a teacher who never taught, an actor who never acted and so on.

In daily life we come across a cobbler who never mended a shoe, a barber who never dressed the hair, a tailor who never stitched, a baker who never baked, a cook who never cooked, a soldier who never fought, a physician who never used a syringe, a farmer who never tilled a land, an athlete who never ran, a teacher who never taught and so on.

That’s what PM Narendra Modi and yours truly advocate – attaining skills with proper education in all fields including legislation, education, tourism etc. Was this achieved through caste system in erstwhile Bharat. I mean varna by action not birth

Jai Bharat