Renunciation...

Creation of my son - #Ridit

Today, I would like to discuss my yesterday’s conversation with my wife and son, in the evening.

Yesterday, I was telling my family members, why, according to the ancient #hinduism, renunciation is considered as one of the most important characteristics or behavioral traits of a high achiever.

And why do we call, #lordshiva #bholababa or #atmabhola - meaning a person who is actually not at all aware of anything #worldly as such or a person who remains unperturbed by whatever #worldly stuff is happening around Him although He knows very well about each and everything in details.

And why it was important for Him to spend His whole life just wearing a simple #baghchal or the skin of a tiger, absolutely bare body, without any makeup or anything as such, leading an absolutely secluded life, far away from the normal crowd, not even surrounded by His close family members to keep His third eye always opened.

And this is the highest form of renunciation one can only do if he really wants to remain # truthful to himself and authentic as much as possible.

And exactly, this is the problem with the modern day’s definition of success of a person - where society usually burdens the person himself who really can be successful or who has already become a little bit of success with a whole package of expectations, norms, the way the person must behave in the public, the way he will behave in the private, his attitude, his concepts of sense and sensuality and everything that actually matters to the outside world and not really for the person himself, thus polluting the very basic nature of the person for which he became successful or exactly for which the people started liking him.

So, eventually, with success, the real person is hidden behind many layers of cosmetic surgery in society, and he becomes a #bhanrua - a comic character, a piece of entertainment for everyone else, just like a stand-up comedian or a joker- always ready for serving others hiding his authentic self.

One of the most painful transformations is because of the modern sick society.

And, you know…

The end result.

The person becomes a hansjaru - a mixed breed of Hans (swan) and Sajaru (the porcupine) as shown by one of the poets of #bengal

For the people in the tech world, if you remember when I posted the below image of myself as to how I suspected my hero, #linustorvalds would become

And I think this might happen to him eventually when he will have to transform himself, the real powerful one with an uncluttered mind about what he does in the most authentic manner and mellow down his real power to abide by the rules of the society just to make others happy, it was actually the pain coming out from me because this is the way people devastated me, a joyful, inquisitive, matilda of a rustic place of #bharat into a corporate zombie. in the name of bloody #grooming and that’s why I actually hate this kind of mindset or rather the corporate mindset.

It steals the authentic self and creates a lot of cosmetic layers on top of his real face and character and what the outsider actually gets, is not at all that real person - we get a person wearing a #mask

And if that very person himself realizes this basic transformation during his lifetime that has happened to him with age and so-called success, that he has lost himself, his true authentic self to make others happy and actually has become a joker of the society, a stand-up comedian for everyone else, 

he actually removes all the masks from his face, 

removes all the cosmetic junk jewelry that society forced him to wear, 

becomes bare-body

a person exactly like 

#lordshiva 

wearing just a 

#baghchal 

and nothing else

Not perturbed by anybody’s

#validation

#praise

#criticism

or anything as such

And only then his

#thirdeye

gets opened

Not before that

And it is not possible by external forces

It will only be possible by his own awakening

Through the painful process of

Detachment 

And 

Renunciation

Enjoy the music...