An inward query

When we are entrusted with the responsibility of keeping a secret, which we keep, the question that arises is:
Why do we keep it? 
(i) Is it because we believe in the ethics of keeping somebody’s trust in us? 
(ii) Or being chosen for the ‘job’ over others, is it our ego pampered by this trust shown in us?
It is only we who can answer this question...as honesty begins with self...




Sushmita Mukherjee,
October 30, 2011

Creativity

"To be able to 'see' the un-usual in the usual is creativity."

Sushmita Mukherjee,

October 23, 2011

Right To Insight

“Information gains its identity, and importance, in the wake of ignorance.” And it appears I too have been a-wake-ned from an ignorance of sorts…

The noted Times Of India columnist, Mr. Jug Suraiya has shared his views on the RTI Act—the Right to Information act, through his “The no of things”, in The Times of India (SECOND OPINION) dated, October 19, 2011. As I read, it evoked a remembrance of a view (a bit different though) that had “visited” me on the same issue, many months ago. But I had failed to accord it its due recognition, by failing to share it. The article also helped to overpower my inertia of “shall see to it later”. After all, the issue stands for our “rights”…and hence has the “right” to find its way out from the confines of my mind! This perforce, almost, emanation is what I referred to as my own waking up from a slumber of ignorance…as not sharing is a manifestation of ignorance, as per my perceptions.

RTI, as an allied Right, gives us the Right To Ignorance too…as information ceases to be, when ignorance dissolves…as it becomes knowledge.

Well information is sought whenever there is ignorance. As also when one wishes to add on to what one knows…because accrued information forms the basis of our knowledge and the ledger of know-ledge has infinite pages…

But when we talk of ignorance we are urged to take a look as to the “nature” of ignorance. Whether the ignorance is imposed by withholding the information that would dispel it or it is the desire to stay with the ignorance or is it ignorance of the existence of ignorance…it could be the result any thing or of many things, other than those mentioned here.

Having discerned that one is afflicted with ignorance, when one decides to shed ignorance and embrace awareness by seeking information, he gets it. But what one decides to do with the accumulated information, the knowledge…manifests whether one has been successful in getting rid of ignorance in totality or otherwise. Because ignorance is not only lack of information or knowledge but also the lack of awareness that knowledge unused is wasted knowledge…while when applied, transcends to wisdom.

“Knowledge used for the betterment of self and all is wisdom…and only then serves its purpose.”

Thus as with everything in life it depends on us how we interpret the RTI…whether as the right to be with ignorance, or as the right to propagate ignorance or the tool to come out of it in totality by accessing and applying the information for self as well as for all—by sharing the same.

And the Right To Information I refer to, also goes beyond the paper works (legalities) and leads to the inner work—The Right to know ourselves…and access our truth. This Right is given to Us by Us and for Us…through our Creation by The Creator. So what we would do? Ignore ourselves and defy nature or Seek our Truth…by Utilizing the Self-given Right to Information in the Right Manner?

Hence hereby we all are wished the Right Information of Selves…subsequent to utilizing the Right to Insight (applied by “looking in-side”) and assessing and accessing the Right Mode for that. The Right Mode cannot be generalized as it differs for all individuals…as we are all “different”, “unique”, “differently unique” and “uniquely different”.

Sushmita Mukherjee,

October 19, 2011.

Angry at whom and what and why?

                 "Anger is capable of causing only one thing...and having accomplished that it renders one incapable of doing anything else...as anger causes Destruction...and nothing else."  

Rejection?

"When you are suffering from 'expectation' you experience 'rejection'...in all walks of life."



Sushmita Mukherjee,
12th October, 2011

Neutrality

"Neutrality, a declaration of being non-judgmental, by choice, gets judged as indifference...and the person embodying neutrality, in spite of being neutral gets adjudged as anything but neutral!"


Why? Because perceptions are products perspective...a tool of relativity to express its all permeability.


Sushmita Mukherjee,
30th September,2011.

Gone with the quake...regions...

All it takes is an earthquake—to shake huge portion of the nation…Sikkim, Bihar, Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Tibet…which too once was a part of our nation—to obviate, from what we deviate—the obvious. Either purposely, or ignorantly, or by being ignorant, purposely. The origin of the turbulence—the epicenter—is a small zone, compared to ‘the’ entirety, yet was enough to prove that the zonal to regional concepts are of the mind. That small zone, in shaking the portions that it did, proved by doing so, that at the root rests the all-pervasive Oneness. For the Universal Consciousness, All IS One.

When ‘outsiders’ divided the nation, it was called ‘partition’; but when the ‘insiders’ divided it, it got labeled ‘demarcation’…as was done for better governance through the localization of administration…and combat the difficulties of ‘vastness’..

But propositions realize their full potential only when accompanied by the sincerity of purpose and intention. As it manifests, these physical demarcations actually originate from the demarcation, aided by the ‘separatist’ thought process. This is infested and infected with regional aptitude…which materializes as regional attitude…and vitiates the intention. And the cause can never be separate from the effect it brings… “As nothing is separate from anything on this earth, in what we call LIFE”.

Now again the earth quakes and shakes and takes into its ambit—an unprecedented range or should we say ‘region’—to obviate…as a reiteration—leaving innumerable affected in its wake—the demarcation is in our mind—wider than the physical cracks it has created—proving that wherever we go, earth in its entirety is a huge common base on which we stand. If a portion is affected, the other ones are too, irrespective of the physical distances that separate them…united that they are at the base, when one shakes, the other shakes too. Same is with us…and unless we stand united, we are liable to fall.

Let this be ingrained indelibly in all the regions of our mind, which too is One…in connection with the All…The Collective…that we call The Universe.

Sushmita Mukherjee,

20^th September 2011