An Interview with GOD-Part II

My dear friends,

Hope YOU and your folks enjoyed the Juices laced with humour in the 5^th May blog ‘Interview with God’-Part I. GOD, being the Giver, Operator and Destroyer. It had to rush for a closed door meeting with Jesus and Mohammed, leaving the last posed Question unanswered.

Ravi: Love you God darling, how are you? What happened in the closed door meeting?

GOD: De Ravi, thanks for your unconditional love. Well, it was a useless meeting with Jesus and Mohammed groups for the umpteenth time. I’m calling upon Krish(na) to resolve this issue. I have lost my patience. Krishna, you know, is deadly. Jesus and Mohammed are immortals. They have already merged with the cosmic ocean. They have become abundant sources of energy.

Ravi: Oh yes, we know. Some people, especially Indian woman simply adore Krishna. God, many people here in India think and propagate that everything in their lives happens according to your whims and fancy and that they don’t have any control over the happenings in their life. If it’s true, then are you NOT a PERMENANT match-fixer, a BRUTAL manipulator of the highest order?

Is GOD REALLY a BRUTAL manipulator and a PERMENANT match-fixer?

GOD: Well, well, Ravi – That’s indeed a ‘bouncer’ to me and without ducking it, I shall try to hook it for a ‘DLF Maximum’. Ravi Kanna, the answer is Yes and NO. Understand this deeply first. Think.

It’s YES for people who have studied only mythology and are highly spiritual and NO for NON-believers and for the majorly scientific brain. Rarely do they meet. That’s THE situation. BUT, I said YES and NO to you as I am aware you are both a believer and a non-believer, the third category for whom science meets sex and spirituality. Iconoclastic sages have this understanding of me, i.e. GOD.

Ravi: Awesome. Thank you so much for this understanding. For some people in either category, “It’s my way, or the highway”. I wish they see the link between Science, Sex and Spirituality for sheer wisdom.

God’s poser to Ravi

God: Can I ask you a Question? I wonder WHY you don’t ask ME anything? I chanced through the ‘Favours asked’ database and found that you have asked for only 1 favour – That of having 2 girl children. Nothing else you have asked me, EVEN in precarious situations! Why son?

Ravi: Well, God, you only told me that my soul was in a doggie’s body last birth. So, I thank you everyday for being born as a human(e) being, Nothing more. Nothing less. Yes, I yearned for sisters at childhood. I was not fortunate. Thank you. NOW, I have 2 for company in the form of biological girl children... What more can I ask?

Why it’s awesome to have more girl children NOW than EVER before?

God: But girls means more expenditure, right, in your society?

Ravi: I understood that It’s “LAW of Economics”, God. Today, in India, women, are in short supply AND are more empowered as well. Women are SEEN everywhere – from IIT’s & IIM’s from Panchayat to parliament, from Entertainment to Environment, in IT or Beauty, from BPO’s to boardrooms. Gone are the days where the domain of the typical Indian woman was in kitchen and bedroom! I suspect, tomorrow, in India, men would have to pay dowry in-order to marry a woman! Already, it’s happening in Haryana where the women-starved men (because of female infanticide) are paying dowries to marry women from Kerala. So, it’s simple Smithsonian economics of demand and supply that rules the roost.

God, I’m worried about lovely American people. Please do something.

Ravi: God, I’m worried about lovely American people. Mindlessly, their rulers have misused / misusing their position, time and again. I could not digest both the Iraq/Afghan wars, sitting in Chennai, watching gory scenes on the Telly.  How you intend to bring sense to America that “Might is NOT RIGHT”?. They bribed Obama with the Nobel Prize for Peace when he MERELY announced the closure of Guatamono bay. They are NOW fiddling needlessly with Iran. Iran is unlike Iraq. They are more intelligent and deadly. Like Israel, they have lots of scientific brains who can even destroy humanity if pushed needlessly like America does, if their backs scratched by America time and again. Not Americans. Americans, by nature are peace-loving and very friendly, we all know. Hence, my concern.

GOD: That’s a tall order, Ravi. I doubt if they would learn. However, it shall be taken care, Ravi. You please don’t lose sleep. I understand your LOVE for Americans. However, the ‘grand design of the cosmos’ would prevail. If Destruction like the 2004 Tsunami or 9/11 or 26/11 is required for mankind to become KIND, with every soul on earth, then, so be it.

WHY this ‘KOLAVERI’, God? Why sometimes you unleash the ‘D’ side in you?

Ravi: Sorry, God, I can’t fathom Destruction of that order for whatever reason. Not just you, ‘Every soul is Godly’; my daughters go further in saying that their doggie doll, the piano too are Godly! No one has any right to kill anyone. Why the hell you unleashed Tsunami at my brethren in the coasts of Indonesia, India and Srilanka in 2004? Why are you SO cruel sometimes? You took away everyone – The one prayed to you and the one who didn’t? WHY this ‘kolaveri’ GOD, from time to time’?

GOD: My child, destruction and construction are two sides of the same coin. Do you understand? Constructive large scale construction follows these destructions. Haven’t you seen how the lives of the Tsunami affected changed for the better than ever before? Look, till whole of ‘mankind’ BECOMES ‘manKIND’, my destructions will continue. However am not to be blamed for man-made destructions of oneself or inflicting on others and the effects of continued rape of the environment. These man-made can be prevented. That’s how the grand cosmic design is! So, You guys screw up yourself and those around you MORE than I screw you folks. I screw up nicely once a while. You guys torture body, brain and soul, one way or the other!! Hah Ha! Idiot, You are conveniently blaming me!

And what’s God’s entertainment?

Ravi: Super. You are NOW talking OUR language. Tell me, HOW come, most mythological creations were majorly with wars and women? Were you watching the entertainment happening on Earth?

GOD:. Watching you folks twist and turn, toss and tumble in LIFE is a great entertainment for our God fraternity, as you people watch evil soap operas on the Telly or gossip about fellow humans or cherish watching IPL.

Is GOD THEN an evil force?

Ravi: Hello God, you are showing your ‘evil’ nature here. You are talking like a sadistic Hitler or like Saddam’s elder son?

GOD: Stupid. Hitler was my creation. Saddam Hussein was my creation as well and so are his many official and non-official progenies. Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa were also my creation. Each one had their roles to play; some played to perfection, some delighted me and some misused blatantly. The ones who misused….

Ravi: I know you are NOT a sweetie pie, God darling, “What did you do to the souls of especially Hitler, Gen Dyre”?

GOD: You have been to Sabarimala right? En-route the hill, have you not spotted a beggar with NO limbs, eyes gorged, but can speak well? HE carries Hitler’s soul in him. For the last sixty odd years he is there only. HE will spend another 80 years at the same place, begging for pardon. Need to explain where are the others?

Newly Inducted GODS

Ravi: Ayyo, you are deadly. Dunno what’s in store for me. You are scaring me, God! And where is Mahatma Gandhi’s soul NOW?

GOD: Chillax, my boy. As regards Gandhiji, he’s already part of our GOD Jr. fraternity. It’s like a ‘Hall of Nobility’ you may like to call – from time to time till they merge into the vast cosmos. The concept is like ‘Hall of fame’. And he deserves, doesn’t he? Mother Teresa has also joined the list. They are undergoing ‘induction programme’ now.

Ravi: Yes, MY LORD. we Indians have built a temple for Gandhiji in Orissa! By the way, there is a rumour mill doing rounds that the world would end by 2012! Have you planed any such thing?

GOD: Open your eyes and understand Evolution of species, mankind etc. and where ALL you folks on Mother Earth have grown from physiological, scientific and psychological perspective. See you soon. Take care.

Ravi: Thank you GOD for your time. Would love to touch base with you again… C you again soon…

Folks, hope you enjoyed this never happened ‘Interview with GOD’-Part II. No offences meant to anyone, including GOD. Understand and cherish the ‘juices’ and  the satirical humour without hurting anyone. Intend to continue this series as we are getting more questions from our friends. The interview with GOD series would have a common thread and that is…

“God is a hypothesis which can NEVER BE PROVED but CAN always be FELT. However, Godliness is present in everyone” - ‘Yours Truly’

AND there is NO right for anyone to kill anyone, be it animalistic animals or humane animals, humane humans or animalistic humans (Like me?) Hah Ha!

Signing off sending you all joules of positive energy. Please don’t forget to share that awesome energy, the constructive LIFE force with your lovely folks as well!

Cheers for a ‘Born Again’ weekend!

G&W Ravi

Hidden Treasure Series-Intellect,Intelligence and WISDOM

My dear friend,

Am key-stroking this ‘piece’ in bliss from Aurobindo Ashram Guest House (a.k.a Park Guest House) in Pondicherry with laptop on my lap and myself on Mother’s lap and we both facing the ‘Mother Ocean’. Mother and Aurobindo are simply divine ‘avatars’ to have blessed us. What’s so remarkable about them is their universal words of wisdom where ‘spirituality meets science’ and “Wow! What a coincidence?” We stayed in a room named ‘Wisdom’! Maybe, subtly, Mother and Aurobindo tells me to always seek for wisdom rather loading my small-but-busy brain with more and more information, mostly USELESS!     

Shall we NOW walk-the-talk with Shri.GRK, the iconoclastic sage we are fortunate to have amongst us and understand Wisdom and Intelligence, in its purest form?


Ravi: Great to chat with you amidst the ‘pristine’ surroundings of Pondicherry beach.

GRK: Hey, this place is well-kept. This place is splendid for a ‘break’ in TIME for mankind. Souls like Aurobindo and Mother are ‘avatars’ to have blessed Mankind to ENABLE them to be more KIND.

Ravi: The rooms in this Guest House have individual names like Serenity, peace, bliss, courage etc. and we were allotted a room named ‘Wisdom’! Can we have a clear understanding of Intellect, Intelligence and Wisdom in its PUREST sense?

What is Wisdom in its PUREST form?

GRK: I shall start with Wisdom. My dear, Just by staying in a room named Wisdom, or by reading books, we cannot get TRUE wisdom. Nor wisdom is available in online or offline stores. It is neither marketable nor is a merchandise.  Nor it can be accumulated, memorized or stored up.

Ravi: Confusion….. Elaborate please.

GRK: De, Wisdom comes with abnegation of the ‘self’. To have an open mind is more important to learning. We can only have an open mind only if we throw away the two D’s – That is our dogmas and doctorates we have been conditioned – both by society and self.

 Let the self-abnegate itself. Not by cramming it with full of information BUT,

·         By being aware of our thoughts and FEELINGS

·         By watching the so-called rich and so-called poor, so-called beautiful and so-called ugly,

·         By carefully observing ourselves and the influences about us

·         By listening to others

Ravi: Shall we NOW say that Wisdom does not come through fear or suppression or oppression, but through the power of observation - of everyday incidents in human relationship.

And WHAT is Intelligence in its PUREST sense?

GRK: Well said. Moving on, Intelligence is the integration of reason and love. But the Intelligent quotient (IQ) that we use measures only our reason. So Emotional Quotient (EQ) and Spiritual Quotient (SQ) are also integrated in Intelligence, in its purest sense. However a caveat – Intelligence should never be crippled by LEFT brained Analytical thinking or IQ.Liberal doses of WHAT and HOW, the essence of RIGHT brained thinking is required for wholesome blossoming of human brain.

There can be intelligence only if there is:

·         Self-knowledge (IQ)

·         Deep understanding the total process of oneself and around us(SQ)

·         Be aware of our own conditioning and responses (EQ)

Ravi: Then what is intellect? Seems to be that there are many intellectuals around us?

GRK: Look, training the intellect does NOT result in intelligence. Intellect is merely a conditioning of thought functioning independently of emotion. In other words, one may have a high IQ, but EQ and SQ? Modern education should radically reform from being LEFT brained oriented to more holistic whole brain development.

Ravi: And the repercussion if IQ alone is practiced?

GRK: Well, until you really approach all of life with your intelligence (Which is IQ, EQ and SQ in conjunction), instead of merely with your intellect (IQ), no system in the world will save man from the ceaseless toil for neither bread and butter nor conjugal family relationship or any relationship for that matter.

Ravi: That, in the words of brain scientists means wholesome development of the brain is required.  For 800 long years, Indians have forgotten to use their RIGHT brain. SOME did, most were sent to the gallows. And we shamelessly remember them now.

Thank you so much for this learning today and let me NOW hear the sounds of Mother Ocean, we are fortunate to hear from our Guest House Garden.

Folks, hope you have enjoyed and cherished the LIFE juice in whole brain development for humankind. That way the torturous world we live in, would indeed be a better place, isn’t it? WHAT do you SAY?

Signing off sending tons of joules of positive energy.

Cheers

G&W Ravi