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DAY 1593

Jalsa, Mumbai Aug 27, 2012 Mon 11:55 PM

The elements of the game show enhance an energy and excitement, which comes without warning and without any pre planning. The excitement of those that play and those that observe, palpably reflects in each minute of the association that flows out in uncontrolled manner. The continuance of this and more, throughout the day and most part of the night pours out in an uncontrolled flood of emotion, which vibrates the very insides.

But life in its unpredictable avatar, springs about you that heavy headed symphony drowning all else about, in sudden rapid conclusive strokes of eventuality.

Death does that with the ease of a well rehearsed unfaltering final act, and all about simply shuts ! How quickly the joy of living comes under sudden review. There is amazement and wonder and disbelief. There is an immediate reflection to the Almighty ! Why ? Is it an instant realization of where it came about from ; a hidden insight that in its performance, the heavens needed to be addressed, for, there it is that those that perish eventually find residence ? An individual, a being, both human and animal cause similar pattern. An indicator of living being, the breath, has abruptly ceased. The light has gone out, darkness prevails, soul transfers wind up their belongings to journey one knows not where. Faiths and beliefs emerge over the centuries of time, itself a misnomer, because time too was an invention of regulation.

Regulation time has elapsed as we would like to believe and portray in thought and deed. There was need to be ethical and devout about its occurrence. After all, life itself, be it in any form, contributed to the universe that existed on a singular planet. Its departure needed propriety. Rituals designed for its execution took over. Once given its divine tributaries, the human required to honor it. Divinity was the closest answer to the myriad unanswered and unknown questioning. Belief and the contribution of all those that professed their proximity to the ‘person above’, multiplied. With each passing hour in the entire world about, repetitions of the act of what then became paraphrased as death, abounded. Mankind found it an impossible task to control it, or to revert it back. When in doubt the living had now discovered the ultimate answer - divinity !

Soon divinity acquired many other manifestations and synonyms. Whenever and wherever there was unanswered question, the default word emerged almost saint like as an indicator of control, in its inimitable style of guide.

A vulnerable audience caught within an improbable performance, is the easiest to mould. Mankind awoke to the hands that spun the wheels of fortune and existence, loved and adored it, for suddenly all that had remained in oblivion had a form now !!

It was the largest and most legitimate convenience devised !

Death too shall have similar treatments. Its pain shall have no medicinal cure. Philosophical and devotional ‘medicinal’ cures shall abound, and shall continue to abound, since there is nothing that has emerged since the evolution which guides us to the life ‘beyond’ - an expression that still has several questions riding beside it …

A breath line shuts and all further discourse closes with it …

Amitabh Bachchan