Monday, June 18, 2007

"S" for ..................

3 days back, I was shocked with the news of accident of my neighbour's kids. The two little girls got hurt badly just because a lad was speeding his bike. He did not even had the humanity to stay there and lift them from the busy road and was ready to escape when the angry junta came to beat him black and blue butthen , also, no one came forward to console the kid . One good hearted lady took them to the hospital and brought them home.I was requested by this girl to accompany her to the temple in the evening where her friend was bringing her some notes which I gladly agreed to.It was Aaarti time. We sat there amidst the buzzing sound of mosquito and crickets, pleasant breeze and a rat to give us company. We were killing time by chatting and an old acquintance stepped out of the temple and after the usual hi and hellos, westarted enquiring about future career plans. An old man leaned forward to listen what we were talking. Though annoying , we did not pay any heed to him. Suddenly he asked us, "what is your mother toungue?" strange question, but he enquired again and targeting one by one asked each of us, then our name,I asked his name then, as he starting talking to us without introducing himself and suddenly This Mr.Satyanarayan started his speech, Swati(my friend's name), Swati means S ,
S for Sai in hindi , S for saint in english, s for sadguru in Punjabi, s for sarkar in urdu, it means S is the essence of all godly power, so you are having divinity.
Then asked us the meaning of GOD, " What is G in GOD?" we said may be great, No G for generator, O for organiser, D for dissolver.
Then told something about the trinity and its relationship with christianity and significance of the dissolver Shiva , like how he is the prime force ? Quoted many examples and again started his point, s for Swati, by that time that little girl was feeling intense pain , he pointed out that we were sitting while other girl is standing , that shows respect, that shows gain s , s for sanskar(Poor fellow, he could not see the disgusted look on our face, how he supposed a girl with two major injuries on her knees to be standing for such long time, and myself having tremendous pain because of my ligament injury and inflammation gives a damn to standing for such long time just for being in his good books)His S story took him to sanskrit, bhavarth of some shlokam, again S, his definition of spirituality again S, Then he tols about his journey to hrishikesh, to learn about the mysteries . By that time we were bored to death and many people were staring him , then he shooted another question" Whats my name?" Each of ius wanted to say " To hell with ur name" but showed him courtsey and told we did not remember, swati remembered half name and told "some satya". To our amusement he told, see s for smartness, sharpness. You should never forget my name.Why?
Ooph, what a silly question but just not to offend him , yes bcoz you have told us so many good things to which he replied no, because I have given you shiksha.We should never be proud, we should be this that.
Then he told us after going to that particular ashram, he progressed like any thing, today he has come on scooter but he owns a car( any guess which make, must be s for "Santro")he earns 4 lakhs a month, he owns these many degrees , people respect him for his suvichaar. And again starting boasting off and really it was so annoying that we were praying that friend of Pragnya should come and we can make a escape.We breathed a sigh of relief when he left. One question that lingered on was why he was himself boasting off while asking others not to be proud? Why he targeted a bunch of people for his S for Speech? Whom he reminds us of? (Is it Ch for Chuunilal of Devdas fame with exception of S being his favorite letter?)
With more of such s for stuff on his s for stupid S for speech, I will continue the S for series in next post.

Posted by Neelima Arora :: 7:45 AM :: 2 Comments:

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