Saturday, March 10, 2012

'FACE-BOOK' - EPIDEMIC
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A famous  story, I read long back ,  have been haunting me  for  past several years !


The story is from CHANDYOGYA  UPANISHAT, a part of the  Oldest scripture of Bharat( I don't like the word 'India,', a Greek-invader-slang) that is also known as Vedanta and proved to be  5 to 7 thousand years B.C.


Any way, the story  is as follows(Compressed):
Human beings qualified AS 'Devas' & 'Asuras '[as per nature] wanted to know and learn about 'Self ' or Soul  and Indra from godly Sect and  Virochan  from Asura-Sect(demonic) went to PRAJAPOTI (the Creative -executive) and had to wait 32 yrs ;(don't know if it was  Global or Cosmic time nor Einstein was born to explain, then).
Finally they got the chance  to ask Prajapoti:--' Lord , what is it that we see reflected in water( no Camera or video then !).
Projapoti : ' You see your- self  only . ..........................
                    Now you dress up with your best clothes , look in the  water..................  .
They obeyed  and reported reported ,happily and over-joyed -
                 :' Lord, we saw our 'selves'  in our best form.'
And the lord said :  Yes , -you have  both  seen  'Your --SELVES ........................................! '


Viirochan , leader of ' Asur-Sect' went 'home happy  and cultivated the means of dressing up well and find  happiness and  joy for their 'Selves'.


But Indra , being the leader of Intelligence, was not happy with this lesson  and started more rational thinking and Introspection and argue-ed with Prajapoti, who was very happy with Indra's challenging questions and taught Indra the real meaning of SELF(SOUL ) through another 96  years.
finally Indra  learnt that the Self is not not body  but is only tied to it ,- like an OX tied to the Bullock-Cart. 
*** May  surf  , for further knowing, my Blog : Cosmic idea  and Spirituality [www.blogger.com/blogger.G?blog ID=....]
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Now  in these ELECTRONIC   and  Computer / FACE BOOK - Age , the above  story from UPANISHADS and  some Experience, personal and  Information -Sources   tell me  & teach me so many educative lessons  about 'Facebook-faces' that ,-- I can write so many stories  on it !................................................................. And well ,-- I may , really . write some ,some days,  if  I live that long ( I am  80 + now).
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Addendum:    IN this 21st  Century  or  Mid -Kali-Yug    of Present Cosmic  Cycle  [with  Human-Evolution  and decay of Moral values]  Face-book , in some sense, is  another  channel of  joy and happiness where ' Photo-media'  in myriad forms ,shapes and poise are  keeping the Majority-population  busy for more than enough of their life's valuable time.
Maybe, they are really happy or maybe, it is an 'Escapist ' way    facing or enduring  'Modern life .
 The other day ,it was printed  in T.O.I, Kolkata  , that  the  nephew of a  state - CM of  India boasted , openly, on the 'Facebook' -- as a young 'CASANOVA'.
   There are 'counter- points ' or better side of the same COIN, that  now, the  realities of the World is more  EXPOSED and it is now easier means to identify the 'Dakrker shades'  earlier.





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