मुक्तिवेग
(Incomplete)
This world is full of vehicles of all
kinds !!! Few vehicles on the road are good, few are slow, few are
comfortable & few are horrible. They carry few million people
wherever they want to go. Little above ground, there are flying
vehicles. They all are faster than road ones. Few are huge, few are
small. These also carry few thousand people wherever they want to go.
Then above even these aircrafts, There are few spaceships who revolve
around the globe. Carrying few astronauts & hoping to get back to
the Earth sooner or later.
And then, there is one Apollo in
history of mankind, which escapes this atmosphere with great velocity
& reaches far beyond the so called human settlement. Another
planet ! Where the Dollar is useless, Water is poison & day is a
month long.
My dear friends, The traffic jam at
signal becomes meaningless for a flight, the thunderstorms &
cyclones become meaningless for a spaceship & day-nights &
seasons become meaningless for Apollo. …..The distance from the
routine bring spiritual isolation, a third perspective & show
larger picture.
To relate this analogy, Imagine these
vehicles are you & me; all working & earning people. We are
simply the carrier of money, take it wherever it wants to go &
dump it as fast as we can, the spaceships are wiser people who have
sustained the trouble & resistance to cross atmosphere (& the
system) & still can come back on earth or escape into vacuum. And
the Apollos are all spiritual Gurus & saints who have survived
through all resistance & friction of escaping from a system &
can see the stupidity of system from far above.
Friends, there is an expanding world
outside your issues of proximity, investments, savings, shopping &
gift economy. There is an infinite world outside your imagination,
knowledge & capacity to conquer. There is reality outside your
virtual self created bubble of pride & prejudice.
It is easy being merely a 'money
courier service' your whole life & enjoy the bubble. But As it
becomes meaningless, Isn't it also boring at a point ! If you want to
see how millions of dollars are useless, if you want to experience
how less important the brand of your shoe is, if you want to know how
ridiculously tiny you & your tensions are.... Here is a way...
Get into NASA office, rent a metal
shield which does not explode at 2000 degrees, sit into a satellite
launcher which absorbs unbelievably strong radiations, fetch a speed
of 11.2km/second & have a ride 3 lakh km drive to moon.
There is relatively simpler way as well...
Forget your wallet, wrist watch, mobile, background, qualification, status, bank balance, relatives, friends & start walking in a forest alone!
Surprisingly, Both the solutions need
equal amount of 'Muktiveg - An escape velocity' !!!
- Harshad.
