ON FEAR AND TRUST..
At some level, we have all been broken- at some point in life.
Broken by swords.
Broken by words..
Broken by TRUST.
Not all wounds have a visible dressing, not all fractures have a plaster.
But, we are broken.
Broken by the demons in the outer world...
Broken by the demons our mind conjures up every night..
And in the process we have lost small fragments of us..
We have become the pieces of jigsaw puzzles on a chess board..
It's really complicated..
We want to find other pieces that we can fit with to make a complete picture but we are afraid since we are always treading on a chessboard, unsure and also sceptical of someone's next move, unsure whether to embrace or to checkmate.
We have lost the art of identifying people!
Oh but nobody possessed that art!
Even history is a witness- a witness to friends turning their backs on each other, of strangers shaking hands for a cause, of benevolent sacrifices, of malicious conquests, of cold non-alliances..
We have maligned the meaning of that word-
TRUST..
Patients don't TRUST their doctors.
Citizens don't TRUST the government.
Neighbouring countries don't TRUST each other.
We live each day in each other's fear..
In the shadows of the nuclear bombs that we all secretly possess..
We know we can hurt someone. But we also we know we can be hurt ourselves..
But we still play with the fire.
And the fear.
Because FEAR is a great thing..
A force stronger than TRUST itself..
A force so strong that can unite us or divide us..
So, we cling on to those who we think can protect us or can share with us- our FEARS!!
So, smaller fish will form a school, the cattle will form a herd, and men will form a crowd.. We are united by FEAR..
But our FEAR looms nonchalantly alone-
The Shark, the lion and another man with something beneath his shirt!
Often they will come alone and yet break us down. Because we are United by FEAR and not by TRUST..
We are together and yet we are FEARFUL..
The men came together and formed civilizations in the FEAR of wild animals, ghosts, demons and natural calamities..
And then when there was no FEAR to be FEARED, we started to FEAR each other.. Because too much power, too much acquaintance only makes us more vulnerable.
Yet, we are pieces of jigsaw puzzles on a chess board- wanting and yet FEARING each other..
But, as my college professor Dr. Somashekhar Nimbalkar sir said when I WhatsApped him the draft of this blog- ''Be Abhih! Be fearless!''
After all, as it has been mentioned in one of our Sanskirt verses-
''Abhayam mitrad-abhayam-amitrad abhyam-jnatad abhayam paroksat*
*Abhayam naktam-abhayam diva nah sarva asa mama mitram bhavantu*''
Atharvaveda 19.15.6
Meaning:
May we be fearless from my friends and from those who are not my friends. (Gyatat abhyam) may we be fearless from known persons and (yah puraha abhyam) and from those who are in front of me ( Naha naktam abhyam) may we be fearless from night (Diva abhyam) as well as in day (Mama sarvaha ashaha) all our desires and all the four directions (Mitram bhavantu) may become our friends.
- Devashish Palkar
At some level, we have all been broken- at some point in life.
Broken by swords.
Broken by words..
Broken by TRUST.
Not all wounds have a visible dressing, not all fractures have a plaster.
But, we are broken.
Broken by the demons in the outer world...
Broken by the demons our mind conjures up every night..
And in the process we have lost small fragments of us..
We have become the pieces of jigsaw puzzles on a chess board..
It's really complicated..
We want to find other pieces that we can fit with to make a complete picture but we are afraid since we are always treading on a chessboard, unsure and also sceptical of someone's next move, unsure whether to embrace or to checkmate.
We have lost the art of identifying people!
Oh but nobody possessed that art!
Even history is a witness- a witness to friends turning their backs on each other, of strangers shaking hands for a cause, of benevolent sacrifices, of malicious conquests, of cold non-alliances..
We have maligned the meaning of that word-
TRUST..
Patients don't TRUST their doctors.
Citizens don't TRUST the government.
Neighbouring countries don't TRUST each other.
We live each day in each other's fear..
In the shadows of the nuclear bombs that we all secretly possess..
We know we can hurt someone. But we also we know we can be hurt ourselves..
But we still play with the fire.
And the fear.
Because FEAR is a great thing..
A force stronger than TRUST itself..
A force so strong that can unite us or divide us..
So, we cling on to those who we think can protect us or can share with us- our FEARS!!
So, smaller fish will form a school, the cattle will form a herd, and men will form a crowd.. We are united by FEAR..
But our FEAR looms nonchalantly alone-
The Shark, the lion and another man with something beneath his shirt!
Often they will come alone and yet break us down. Because we are United by FEAR and not by TRUST..
We are together and yet we are FEARFUL..
The men came together and formed civilizations in the FEAR of wild animals, ghosts, demons and natural calamities..
And then when there was no FEAR to be FEARED, we started to FEAR each other.. Because too much power, too much acquaintance only makes us more vulnerable.
Yet, we are pieces of jigsaw puzzles on a chess board- wanting and yet FEARING each other..
But, as my college professor Dr. Somashekhar Nimbalkar sir said when I WhatsApped him the draft of this blog- ''Be Abhih! Be fearless!''
After all, as it has been mentioned in one of our Sanskirt verses-
''Abhayam mitrad-abhayam-amitrad abhyam-jnatad abhayam paroksat*
*Abhayam naktam-abhayam diva nah sarva asa mama mitram bhavantu*''
Atharvaveda 19.15.6
Meaning:
May we be fearless from my friends and from those who are not my friends. (Gyatat abhyam) may we be fearless from known persons and (yah puraha abhyam) and from those who are in front of me ( Naha naktam abhyam) may we be fearless from night (Diva abhyam) as well as in day (Mama sarvaha ashaha) all our desires and all the four directions (Mitram bhavantu) may become our friends.
- Devashish Palkar
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