Dreamweaver: Bloodthirsty God

Monday, October 12, 2009

Bloodthirsty God

(This is a letter I wrote to MS Dhoni is response to his slaughter of a baby goat in early 2008. It’s also on my animal blog TCC, in case anyone wants to read it there...)

Dear Mr. Dhoni,

I am one of millions of people who have been shocked and hurt by your act of slaughter of a baby goat in Ranchi. I wish to express some thoughts to you as the voice of the millions.

I am a Hindu by birth just like you. I have always been spiritually inclined and I always depend on the great light of God for everything. But I have always drawn the boundary between faith and fanaticism.

To what lengths does one go to for success? Do you really believe that you can achieve success by pleasing God with the blood of an innocent creature? Do you really believe that you can get what you want by inflicting pain on a dumb mute baby animal? Do you really believe the God we worship is that bloodthirsty an entity? Don’t you realize that what God wants from you, is for you to sacrifice the vices within you? The anger, the vanity, the ego! That is what God wants from all of us.

In a country, where Mahatma Gandhi used to say that our society is judged by the way it treats its animals; where Mahavatars have always preached ahimsa; where Krishna, Christ and Mohammed have taught us to bestow love and kindness upon all of Gods creations, what you have done totally contradicts what our country stands for! What religion stands for! What Hinduism really stands for!

You have achieved the pinnacle of success, with the sweat of your brow and by the Grace of God. For that we laud you. Every Indian holds his breath when a cricketer like you goes out into the field. Sportsmen like you are the pride of our nation. But what you have done has not made us proud...in fact it has left a bitter taste in our mouths.

Dear Mr. Dhoni, with great power comes great responsibility. You surely know that. This is not just some line from a cheesy superhero flick! You have the power to influence the youth of India. You have a responsibility to show them that the true meaning of life is not how much one succeeds in material life, but how much one can grow internally, how much one can love ones fellow beings and how much one can be in tune with God.

Do the right thing. Tell people that every animal has the right to God’s good earth. And no one especially a celebrity such as yourself, has the right to resort to murder for his own end. That is not God’s wish.

Awaiting a response from you,

The youth of India.

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There’s Magic Everywhere

You have to look for it. You have to search really hard. But I can assure you, I’ve seen magic all around me. Now I do not find it difficult to find magic when I need it. Mostly I find it within myself. Sometimes outside. And sometimes where I least expect it. Of course one’s own definition of “magic” is vital to finding it in the first place. For me, magic is anything and everything that makes my heart skip a beat or leave me speechless with awe.

I find magic in the ocean. The gentleness of the waves masking the immense power within, the vastness of the water teeming with millions and millions of life forms and the immense tranquility I experience just by looking at the sea, seems to me the most magical thing of all. In the whishing whooshing of the waves, I hear words. When I put a conch to my ear, I don’t just hear the wind making ocean like sounds, I actually hear the ocean and the many voices speaking through it.

I lie awake at night and watch the star studded night sky. And the stars dance around joyfully as I imagine billions of worlds out there in the universe filled with stardust and moonlight, suns and planets, filled with different kinds of living creatures all struggling to establish a corner in this vast cosmic grandeur. The fact that the universe exists-is magic to me. In my dreams at night, I fly out into the night sky into the world I have created in my mind and everything is magic there.

I wake up in the morning to chirping birds and rustling leaves, a moon which disappears and a sun which rises like clockwork everyday. The baby inside a mothers womb which grows out of one single cell to a fully functional reflection of its parents, our beautiful blue planet which revolves around the sun along a set orbit, the many brilliant minds working in unison to keep earth progressive yet conserved and the mighty watchmaker who sets everything into motion along a brilliantly conceived design-MAGIC.

Constant advice from my parents to do the right thing and tread the right path-Magic. A home to go to and a dog who makes me feel like the single most special person in the world every day-Magic. The sparkle that I see in my husband’s eyes whenever he looks at me, the love he feels for me, the way he makes my toes curl every time he holds my hand-no one else can see that. Only I can and its Magic.

My own volition, my abilities, my amazing physical form which permits me to think, love and create, is magic. My Guru’s endurance of my ways and his selfless never ending love for me. Supreme magic.

I see magic in everything. In every situation. In every word spoken and in every emotion felt. In every good deed and in every heartfelt prayer. In every love filled heart and in every burning desire. In every passion and ambition, in every bit of hard work and every show of divine love.

There is magic every where. If you only care to look.

-----Magically your's Twinky.