A NEW GARB TO DIVINITY

Divinity, when it comes, comes in a big package!! At least that is what it seems from the recent goings on in my country. After all that bad could happen...the bomb blasts, the reservation drama, the RTI dilution and the office of profit bill…its now the turn of the the divine to let loose their charisma on the poor earthlings, and what better place that Good old INDIA?? So...the gods decided to arrive, en bloc, in a full fledged tamasha…at least thats what it seems after watching the headlines the past weekend.

First came the news of the MAHIM waters turning sweet. Bombay danced to the tune of the divine, and mumbaikars of all hues flocked at the Mahim shores to get a taste of the divine waters. The deed was said to be the effect of the powers of some pir baba, whose dargaah stands beside the beach. Agreed, he was a great man, full of divinity, but why on earth would the pir show his divinity by turning the sea water sweet?? That is what i fail to digest...

The sight of the mumbai masses greedily drinking up the copious liquid...the sea water that is…makes one wonder at the ignorance and stubbornness of my people. The repeated warnings and appeals by the civic and medical authorities fell in deaf ears, and only caused the masses get angry at such a blatant insult at the pir. People vouched for media bytes...drinking up litres of water for the television cameras. One great personality had the guts to even shout out loud that the waters had it in them to cure any conceivable disease, be it cancer or AIDS..or for that matter..common cold.

Now it really remains to be seen whether the water cured these diseases..or the greatdevotees just landed up in hospital beds with diarrhoea and jaundice!!!

Moving on, the next day gave a new definition to divine presence…GODs drinking milk!! Gods set on mission operation flood...guzzling up millions of litres of milk..at the cost of millions of mere mortals that throng this great country. The drinking spree that the gods have set on seems to have no end in sight, and my countrymen will leave no stone unturned in supplying milk to the thirsty gods. Gods in Delhi alone consumed a mind boggling 1 million litres of milk in 1 day....and the amount guzzled up in the rest of the country can only be left to the imagination. A lady even had the audacity to conclude that this was a proof given by the gods that they do exist. What kind of a GOD needs to give a proof of existence, and that too of such kind??? The situation and the madness went so much out of hand that even some temple priests appreciated the fact that it would be much more pleasing for the GODs if this milk would have come to the use of the teeming millions of starving Indian children. But alas, we, as a people, would treat the gods to something nobody knows if they want or not, but turn a blind eye to the needs of our poor brethren.

I might sound like the leader of the atheist community of India in the lines above, but let me assure you I am not!! I am as much a believer in the Almighty as any body else is...just that I do NOT think that this mass hysteria is doing any good to my nation. A lot of you might not agree to my view, and I am really apologetic if I have hurt anybody's feelings, but that is what my conscience said to me, and I believe, THE GODS(conscience) NEVER LIE!!!