Have you noticed how our own ideas become more acceptable when we put them in the words of somebody famous?
I'd rather not just say ' I like peace' not because I don't mean it but because I'm not sure you even want to know what I like..if instead I quote Mahatma Gandhi, you'd probably listen and be impressed. Also if I'm speaking about spirituality ( which in my opinion boils down to 'I like peace'), I must quote Vivekananda or Ramakrishna Paramahansa. How can I not? And if I'm the kind that likes to shock, I can also season my speech with some OSHO-isms.
Brands are in and anything which is not branded has to be inferior. Therefore just as my watch has to be a Rolex for you to even notice it, my thoughts have to stem from something said by a 'superior' thinker who is now a brand. Why must anyone listen to me wax eloquent about how the conscience must be our only guide? Must I not quote from the VEDAS and the GITA and the UPANISHADS to substantiate my thinking? Even the QORAN agrees but hey, I didn't think of it first and therefore I must bring proof from all these guides that I must use only my common sense and conscience to guide me.
It is amazing how even the most intelligent thinkers of today would rather tie themselves up in - isms and call themselves -ites than just express what they know as true - for themselves atleast. We would rather be part of a herd...than be heard for ourselves.
We are afraid to remain in our own skins when we preach but it is easier to do the very same thing using quotations. I'd rather not say...'hey..chill and do what you have to'...I'd rather say ' Krishna ne kaha - apne karam karte jao, phal ki chinta matt karo' and Krishna is God and I've successfully passed the buck.
Is this why today we lack younger leaders? Is this why we're happy with BJP and the Congress and can't look beyond them? Where is the young brigade with new ideas for today? Where are those people who can THINK and express themselves without fear? How long will we dig into our pasts for inspiration? Inspiration is great but forward thinking indispensable. Is the present not reason enough for us to say ENOUGH?
Get out of that mental prison and THINK and tell us all what YOU think..make a change before it is too late.
1 comment:
Its true and really amazing how we all have lost our mind. And mostly what shocks me is how a concept can be believed in a religion without any thinking involved.
We have these days become too intelligent for quick modifications having a little change here and there suiting us but invention and the spirit of invention have died.
And most amazingly education is not directly proportional to potential to think. We must be going wrong somewhere...either in system of education, or building up society, or parenting that is somewhere not allowing an individual to explore his grey matter independantly. The more we fill in gathering from ages, the more we are loosing at the base. It seems too much knowledge carried from the past has now made us lazy to start again.
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