Selective Amnesia

"CHANGE almost the entire team, 'especially the seniors'  is the cry raging the nation suffering from a malady called 'Cricket-fever'. And the anger, not unusual, as this has been demonstrated time and again after such performances by the team. Won't say unwarranted. Yet at the same time in the anger we lose rationale. Change is always welcome...and is natural, whether we wish for it or not. But the way it is proposed again brings to the fore that we prefer selective amnesia. And the repartee would be we do not live 'in' our memory. True. Yet everything is contextual. And I can speak for only myself...and that is what I am doing...as I have been...

Have no qualms in stating that when we propose things we overlook things...we prefer not to place ourselves in the position of the individuals we are painting as  villains. Hence am not bewildered as Rahul Dravid's retirement is doing the rounds. Hailed always a Wall...with a chink shown...we are ready to fell the wall. I talk specifically of him not merely because I am a fan of his...

In the test matches India played in 2011, it is I think not required to mention who held the team...and led the team's performance. You remove his scores and then you would  be facing the same situation that the team manifested in the recently concluded test series. The Wall that withstood all...when fails, everybody fells him...

Nobody continues forever...he too won't. And he would be the first one to own up the responsibility. He has always been a team man...and along with VVS Laxman, has been instrumental in most of the victories...and in saving matches. Yet when the team fails...they are held responsible and fit to be given the axe. Within the month we forget that without him the team would have faltered, as it has, with him failing to score...

Well maybe that is the price he has to pay...a Wall has to always perform as the Wall...and that he would even now...if that means Walling the brick-bats...He has given everything to the game, that has given him everything...and he needs no certificate from me for that. It is just that I felt the urge to come out with what wished to come out...for the person who has been held responsible many a times for India's failure...maybe at times more than he has been hailed as savior...and facilitator of victories...

This is the bane of fanaticism...the vision becomes too objective...while life in itself is subjective...be it the field of cricket or the bigger field of life...  

An information and a humble request

I am sharing with you all the links to the wonderful E-magazine, The Spiritual Lounge. Feel free to share it with all as the magazines mission is great and 2012 has been chosen as the year of "Consciousness in Motion".

http://moksa.whitedrums.com/

http://spirituallounge.whitedrums.com

The contents are great. And as to whether my article (p.31-32) touches you all...I sincerely wish so...

What touches, connects too...

Regards and best wishes...

Sushmita Mukherjee,

5th January, 2012

Existence, Religion, Faith

Drawing conclusions is a gift we have been endowed with, having being created as the intelligent species that we are. As to how creation in entirety came into being is a question that has been asked since time immemorial...and answered too, depending on the answers received and accepted (or liked) by the one who answers. And this shall continue...and continue to contradict or corroborate depending on what an individual’s perspective leads to and where it leads to. 

As of ‘faith’, it is distinctly different from belief...as far as I perceive. And if one has to relate with respect to a religion, then, true and absolute faith would never incite the ‘faithful’ to denounce all other religions...or bring harm to followers of a different faith. True followers of faith (any) realize that as their faith is true for them, so is true the faith of ‘others’ for ‘them’. Religion that we 'see' today is less about faith, but more about rituals and 'teachings' depending upon the interpretations of the interpreter...man-made...with impositions implied, "What is good for me is good for you as well" or "It is so, so it has to be so". True faith is accessed within...and without being essentially within the framework of any particular religion. Faith in itself is a religion...

When we have faith, we do not need anything else...as it is our faith that guides us to 'be' and 'do'...how and what we need to 'be'...and do what needs to be done to unravel the truth...and the answers, the answers that we seek...primary being that of our being, origin of our existence…and the reasons for the very existence of existence…

Sushmita Mukherjee,

December 22, 2011

A Book

A book is not merely pages filled with words...showcasing an individual's reflections and realizations...irrespective of the subject. It is a potent tool in the larger perspective of life...having infinite potential to make you access your infinite potential.


A book becomes a part of your life...as it redefines your life by making you to redefine your own self...and recreate your self... 


If the intention is so behind its being written...so it is realized...even though at times it feels likes the book of life has too many pages of 'time' to be flipped before the book becomes 'a book'.


But if one has booked a time with one's destiny, consciously, with full faith, 'the book' keeps its appointment as a reality...by becoming 'it'...


Sushmita Mukherjee,
December 21, 2011

Choice

'Be' your own choice...


Sushmita Mukherjee,
December 15, 2011

Following

Intently followed is the happening in the lives of friends...and foes alike. Though the intentions behind these 'followings' are not alike. They being about the people liked and disliked, respectively. But whatever be the intentions behind the following, the following is there...

But is the time taken to follow one's own self earnestly...and find out what is happening in one's life truly...and why is it happening the way it is happening? And if so, by how many? It is wished that this 'many' trascends from 'only these many?' to 'innumerable'...

Sushmita Mukherjee,

December 6, 2011

Everything Is NEW

We ask ourselves and others, "So, what is new?" But let us ponder over our own question...and we would invariably wonder as to why we asked this question. Because as we introspect...give some time to ourselves in silence we realize that everything is new. If we look at the gross, we find it unchanged. Yet 'the moment' as it gives way to the next...and a new moment is birthed, we at the core level too are re-birthed. 

No two moments are same...and as we live through these moments we too change, with our perceptions changing. Each new moment renews us...consciously or unconsciously. Our 'different' reactions and responses to 'similar' events bears testimony to this fact. It tells us how 'far' we have come...and that 'distance' traversed, is a measure of the evolution of our consciousness...of the being that we are. 

Though we usually term it as "coming of age"...it is actually the evolutionary process and its progress... that we are referring to...

It is thus this very "coming of age" that is wished for...for only then peace would envelope each and all in its sublime embrace...Our Creator's Grace...   


Sushmita Mukherjee,
November 24, 2011