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2009/4/30 Aaajaaaaareee……I was always fascinated with the haunting songs from yesteryear films like ‘Woh Kaun Thi’, ‘Gumnaam’, ‘Kohraa’ etc.
So inspite of AGYAAT not being really a Ghost film I just wanted to do a song on those lines. Since the basic point of the film is that you can’t see the Antagonist in the film I thought it will be an interesting idea to put forth that thought though the lyrics of this song.
The Music is by Bapi-Tutul Lyrics by Prashant Pandey Sung by Shweta Pandit
Also I am putting some shots from the film to go with the sound-track. This is neither a Trailer nor a Music Video. It is just some random shots taken from the film to go with the feel of the song.
AGYAAT - Sunn Saakte (Hindi) Sunn saakte toh.. bhaag sakte ho.. Iss darr ka na koi chehra…
Aayeega… jaan le jaayeega… Agyaat hai…
Zehreela… saaya… tadpayeega…
2009/4/28 My reactions to reactions
1. Who is going to play Suri? 2. How could you see Satyendra in class if you and he belonged to different branches? 3. Sure, some of us are influenced by what we read and who we meet but I think also some of us are born with a capability to think by themselves. 4. Is it only the result which differentiates between Guts and Stupidity? 5. Do you think philosophy will be best conveyed through a book rather than in a movie? 6. Could the philosophy of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer have contributed to Satyendra’s frustration in life and negative effects? But if you can get another pint of milk you don’t need to philosophize. Philosophy primarily is a weapon of the incompetent. For example; Superman does not need philosophy. 7. Are you scared that you may not be able to do justice if you make a movie on Satyendra? 8. There is Satyendra in every one of us but only the degree differs. 9. I am assuming your thoughts on God are same as they were 27 years ago. 10. Do you know where Satyendra is and what he does? 2009/4/27 The search for Paritala RaviAfter thinking hard on every actor both known and unknown I have finally zeroed in on Vivek Oberoi as the most ideal choice to play Paritala Ravi. He has remarkable intensity in his eyes which I noticed in the making of Company, a voice which commands attention, an arrogance in his demeanour, an enormous power in his stance, and also a certain vulnerability which makes one instantly warm up to him, which is what is needed to fit in a role of Paritala Ravi’s profile. After a rough look-test done and when I saw the approximation of how Vivek could look like in different phases of Ravi’s life, from being a rebel in the jungles to a political strong-arm man, I was absolutely convinced that my search ended.      2009/4/25 My reactions to reactions1. Satyendra reminds me of a line from Friedrich Nietzsche “The higher you go, the smaller you look to the people who are still on the ground level.”
Ans: Though brilliantly said I don’t think that line was said by Nietzsche as it seems a little too tame by his normal standards of expression, though he said about himself in his autobiography ‘Ecce Homo’ “The whole phenomenon of humanity lies at an incalculable distance beneath me and my Zarathustra. What I say in one line others do not say in whole books.” 2. Did your thinking develop from the books you read and your associations with certain people?
Ans: Everybody’s thinking pretty much develops because of those same reasons, as the simple fact is that we are all born with a blank mind. 3. Can you tell us about a conversation you had with Satyendra?
Ans: One day as I was going out for shopping Satyendra handed me his chappal and asked me to get its broken strap repaired. I was pretty offended to which he said, “You wouldn’t have been offended if I asked you to get my glove or my hat repaired. The reason why you are actually offended is because you look down upon your own feet compared to your hands or your head due to certain programming which was done on you over the years. On the other hand if it is the dirt you are worried about, I want you to understand that there is more dirt in your body than on my chappal. Any way, what is dirt? Everything in this world is some combination or the other of the 102 elements and you would not look down upon any of these elements individually but in a certain combination in a certain context you develop negativism to them…..” At the end of a 15 minute lecture from him on the above lines I felt stupid and took his chappal along with me to get it repaired.
4. Is Satyendra your alter ego?
Ans: No, he was my ego crasher. 5. When it comes to reality people like Satyendra fail miserably.
Ans: Success and failure are too lame to be used in the context of a man like Satyendra. For you and me they are important because we measure ourselves from the stand point of how others perceive us. “That tree stands lonely there on the hills. It has grown up high above man and beast and when it speaks, there is no one tall enough to listen”. – Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra). 6. If you see negative effects of Satyendra’s brilliance, maybe you are negative in your perception of him.
Ans: Actually my intelligence was in realizing the negative effects of Satyendra because I do not have his brilliance to support me if I adapted to his thought process. If an ant truly realizes the size and strength of an elephant it will be smart of it to move away from the elephant rather than be around it. 7. Of what importance are ability, intelligence, genius etc without a meaningful outlet?
Ans: Meaningful to whom and with what motivation is the question. In Satyendra’s own words, “To measure success let’s imagine a case of people walking through a tunnel with an objective to reach its end. Now depending on who reached the end 1st, 2nd, 3rd, we can measure success. On the other hand if people are going through different tunnels where their condition of passages and their individual capacities are different, then how do you measure?” Satyendra is a man who choose never to enter any tunnel for reasons best known to himself as he never had a desire to achieve. He just wanted to absorb. That’s his choice and I respect that. 8. Why didn’t you give him a chance to stay with you instead of leaving him in a windowless room?
Ans: Hello, that was his choice and not mine. I already told in my article on him that he got bored with me. The greatest compliment he ever paid me was when he said, “I think you are just stupid whereas I don’t even know what to call the others.” 9. Why don’t you make a movie on Satyendra?
Ans: Can’t because he is a mind thing. 10. After reading your blog I think that you are as troubled a soul as me.
Ans: Think whatever makes you happy Mr.Spiritual. 11. How do you manage to live happily without disappointments?
Ans: By not having expectations and relishing every moment. 12. Is it really possible to know everything in the entire universe in one life to get bored to death?
Ans: It’s not about knowing everything but it’s about having a desire to know something you really want to know about. “The pursuit of truth and knowledge is not important. What is important is the pursuit of a specific truth and knowledge which helps you in reaching your goal provided you have one.” – Ayan Rand (The Romantic Manifesto) In Satyendra’s case he chose not to have a goal or he had goals I with my limited intelligence could not comprehend.
13. How come Satyendra was 2 years junior to you and yet you were with him for 4 years in Engg? Ans: I said he was 2 years younger to me… and I failed one year. Happy with the math? 2009/4/24 The one who influenced me the mostMany times people ask me on when exactly my thinking took a certain turn and the answer for that is when a guy called Satyendra came into my life who undoubtedly is the most intelligent and knowledgeable man I have ever met in my life. He was 2 years younger to me and my junior at Siddhartha Engineering College in Vijayawada. I was doing Civil engg. And he was in the Mechanical branch.
He was a voracious reader and after reading he used to analyze the book and the author with such intrinsic depth and detail that one would understand everything from what caused the author to write the book to its failings and what it would do to different individuals depending upon their individual sensibilities.
Not only the students but even the lecturers at the college used to be scared of his intelligence. I could literally see the tension on their faces whenever Satyendra raised his hand to ask a question.
He used to come to college in hawai chappals, sit in the last bench, borrow a paper torn from a fellow student’s book and scribble some points of the ongoing lecture. He used to leave the class abruptly once he felt he got the point of the lecture or if he felt that the lecturer was incapable of delivering it and he would rather read it in the relevant book.
I have seen him reading text books with as much ease as one would read a fiction novel. His interests were unimaginably varied and very intense. I used to feel that I knew a little about at least cinema but he knew and understood cinema many times more deeper than me and cinema was just one of his many many interests. He was the guy who introduced me to the teachings of the various philosophers starting from Plato, Emanuel Kant, Descartes, Schopenhauer, Ayan Rand and of-course Friedrich Nietzsche. He used to talk about those philosophers to me as if they were kids. I surely believed it at that time and believe that now too that Satyendra was more intelligent than all of them not necessarily because it was true but it’s because his understanding of them was far greater than mine and hence I couldn’t question Satyendra’s observations on them and their thoughts. So for all practical purposes he was higher than them for me.
He always used to see everything beyond the obvious. Both of us one day went to see a film called “Coma” based on a medical thriller written by Robin Cook. There was a scene in the film where the leading lady gets trapped in a cold storage with dead bodies hung in plastic sheets. Everybody who saw the film including me was terrified at the plight of the girl. But Satyendra talked about the dead bodies, on who they might have been as individuals. They would have laughed, cried and had their own dreams but now they are all reduced as mere props so as to invoke fear. So in reality he said the tragedy is more on the dead bodies than on the girl.
On another occasion we went to see a film called “Papillon” and in the interval we bumped into out college Principal. Satyendra told him he was watching the film for the 7th time. The Principal said that he didn’t find anything that great in the film to which Satyendra said that obviously he saw something in it which the Principal could not. To this the Principal said if he were so observant that he could see something no one else could see where is the need to see it 7 times, to which Satyendra replied “Why do you make love to your wife every day?”
Much later after his retirement that Principal wrote an article for a magazine “The one student I will never forget” based on his interactions with Satyendra.
When I was doing a project on building a residential colony for industrial personnel for my final year, I requested Satyendra to write a foreword for it. He just took a paper and pen started writing without thinking for a second. I still remember the first paragraph which goes something like this.
“Ever since the first quiverings of life animated a lifeless lump of clay it has been a biological imperative for every creature to seek shelter… shelter from the elements and shelter from the predators. Though in the animal world it remained more or less at an instinctive level, in humans it evolved into a complex form”.
Obviously my four years association with Satyendra and my understanding of him cannot be encompassed in this one article, not to forget I am still not sure whether I had or have the capacity to fully understand his brilliance. At best I could recognize it and I tried to feed on it.
After finishing college we were out of touch not by my choice but because he got bored with me. Years later when I was shooting for a film in his town, I tried to trace him as I came to know he left his home a few years earlier. I found him in a windowless room filled with all kinds of books. His eyes were filled with boredom which made me realize that he got saturated with knowledge and intelligence, and as a result there was no more excitement in his life
My relationship with him varied between admiration, awe and fear. I feared him mostly in the old times because I was insanely jealous of his brilliance and was angry that he could make me feel like a nobody.
Now I fear him because I have seen the negative effects of his brilliance. He is bored to death of everything and everyone in life and hence almost as good as dead. His eyes were unseeing when I met him last and I could see his mind was not responding as he cannot relate to any of the stuff that common people like me get excited about, and as a result he cut himself off from the world. The greatest thing that happened to my life was that he had a few conversations with me which changed my life, and the greatest fear he put in me is that, because of what happened with him, I realized that there can be actually such a thing as too much intelligence.
For all those who believe that Howard Roarks do no exist in the real world I want to tell them that “they do” and that I met and interacted with one. If Satyendra was Howard Roark in Fountainhead, I am not even a Peter Keating or Ellsworth Toohey. I am just a guy who tried to study and understand him… and I think I understood a little.
That’s about it.
2009/4/23 My reactions to reactions1. If you give such a shitty response to my request then we as an audience would rather not have you make that film and fuck it up.
Ans: Oh my! my! my! The baby got angry. Can somebody get a lollypop, please… 2. Why do you rely so much on shock value to tell a story?
Ans: It’s the most effective way of getting attention. 3. Am waiting anxiously to see Rakta Charitra.
Ans: I promise you that it will be worth the wait. 4. You bastard!
Ans: Thanks. 5. Thinking of so many characters, I think you missed your own character.
Ans: Now that’s a damn interesting observation. 6. Making a film on Paritala Ravi will have a negative impact on society.
Ans: Then why don’t you make a film on me making the film and neutralize it. Jokes apart just chill and wait till you atleast see the film before you let loose your valuable opinions. 7. Do you think of even such minor details like J.D looking at watch and Manoj referring to JD as Amita Vacchan?
Ans: Yeah, that’s the story of my life. I get into the minor details and miss out on the major ones. 8. Would you act if any role is offered to you?
Ans: I freeze even in front of a still camera. 9. Would you prefer a beautiful angel or a sexy devil?
Ans: I prefer a beautiful and sexy woman. 10. Do you use weird camera angles because you are bored of normal angles? Ans: The angles come from within the context of how I would like to see. Everything in the world is the same but it’s the way you choose to look at it which gives it a perspective. 11. How do you react when people call you eccentric?
Ans: I am basically a loner both in my thoughts and deeds and I understand that a loner is many times considered mad by most. “For them lonesomeness is the plight of the sick one and for me it is the flight from the sick ones” – Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra)
2009/4/18 My reactions to reactions1. Rakta Charitra sounds interesting. Just take care that you don’t use your weird camera angles and eerie music.
Ans: I am going to use even more weirder angles and even more eerier music. Do yourself a favour and don’t watch it. 2. Are you an introvert or extrovert?
Ans: Depends on who I am with. 3. Don’t loose grip on the screenplay.
Ans: Ok Sir. 4. Who is Mr.Pandey?
Ans: He wrote Sarkar Raj and now he is writing Rakta Charitra. 5. Why don’t you concentrate on a single project?
Ans : Why don’t you keep your advises to yourself? 6. God is like air around us but we feel it only when we switch on the fan?
Ans: Wouldn’t be knowing that. I use an Air Condtioner. 7. I heard it was your thought to shoot “Chaiya Chaiya” song on the top of a train?
Ans: Not guilty. 8. I have a script and if you don’t make it I will move to Hollywood.
Ans: Bye. 9. How can you shoot films so fast?
Ans: I am not fast. The others are slow. 10. What’s new in the story of Rakta Charitra? It’s been told so many times before.
Ans: Movies are never about stories, they are about telling a story. If it’s only about the story why do people make best selling novels into films. A best seller by definition means most people read it and hence know the story. It’s the process what people come to watch. Coming to Paritala Ravi’s story you or others might know the key incidents of his life. What I intend to show is the in-betweens which led to them. 11. Where are you going to set the story of Rakta Charitra? Won’t it be authentic to do it in Telugu?
Ans: Authenticity is not about the region. It’s about characters, the way they think, the way they act. A Godfather kind of a story can happen in a New York, a Mumbai and in Rayalaseema also. Faction feuds like in Rayalaseema happen in many parts of the country and the circumstances which give rise to a Ravi can happen anywhere else too. The idea of Rakta Charitra is not to do an authentic portrayal of Ravi and the faction wars of the region but it is to capture the spirit, the drama and the psychology behind them and to take it to a widest range of audience. 2009/4/14 Rakta Charitra : Writer's note“Nainam chindanti shastrani nainam dahtii pavaka…”
“The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire.”This shloka from the Bhagwat Gita Chapter 2 on the unchanging nature of being forms the core of Indian thought which gave birth to the great epics- Ramayana and Mahabharta. It can be argued that these epics encapsulate the whole philosophy and rationale of birth and death and the period in between which is commonly referred to as life. That is the reason there can never be bigger and better stories than these. Paritala Ravi’s saga echoes these mythical Indian epics not in a semblance of the story but in spirit of timelessness and universality, Rakta Charitra part one and two will be epic films with a vast emotional landscape of a saga spanning generations, the larger than life, crushing struggles and coming of age; the rise and fall of a legend. Raktcharitra one and two will tell the origins, cause and effects and the gigantic pull of two opposing powers, Ravi and Suri, how the cycle of time changes the hunted into the hunter and then again into the hunted. Rakta Charitra is about the life and times of men who unfalteringly walk into a deadly war that threatens to obliterate them and their families forever. Inspite of them being the last men standing and faced with just one choice – to kill or get killed, they keep rising from the ashes like a phoenix to defeat their enemies. There are no full stops in the world of Rakta Charitra as the end of one marks the beginning of another legend. Though inspired from true epic rise and fall of Paritala Ravi, Raktcharitra for me turned out to be really an adaptation of the extremely dramatic real life stories of the rural legends of not only the south but also of the north India and also all over the world. For me this story has played out and is unfolding every day every where every moment since thousands of years and will continue to do so. A true and first attempt at creating a contemporary Indian epic, an immensely intense social political and family drama, Rakta Charitra just by the sheer complexity of its narrative and the grandness of its story telling in a modern context can be truly called “aaj ke bharat kii mahabharat”. Prashant Pandey 2009/4/12 Rakta CharitraThis is the name of the film I am intending to make as my next after India 24/7. It’s inspired by the story of Paritala Ravi from Andhra Pradesh who got assassinated in January 2005. Even though the actual incidents of the story happened and the related characters existed in south India, I decided to make it in Hindi because I strongly felt that the sheer uniqueness of the story deserves to be told to a much wider audience.
Paritala Ravi was arguably the most feared individual ever in the history of the blood-ridden faction politics of South India. He was a prime accused in innumerable murder cases and also survived numerous assassination attempts, the most brutal of which happened on a quiet Friday afternoon in November 1997 when a road near Rama Naidu Studio in Hyderabad was turned into a death field by a bomb which killed 26 people but failed to get its intended target Ravi.
I, in the course of my life have read biographies of various people and have also come to know through various sources the life stories of many highly dangerous men including that of Velupalli Prabhakaran the LTTE Chief to Pablo Escobar the Columbian drug lord to our very own Dawood Ibrahim but all those stories pale in comparison to Ravi’s life story.
How Ravi, a soft-spoken shy guy under a force of certain circumstances retreated into the jungles, became a rebel and how he mounted a volcano of violence to avenge his father’s and brother’s deaths and how in time he became a folklore legend and eventually a minister in N.T.Ramarao’s Cabinet reads more grippingly than any fiction writer anywhere in the world can ever imagine.
Ravi’s name sent shivers up the spines of not only his rivals but even the law enforcement agencies. He was a rebel, a feudal lord, a robin hood, a killer of hundreds and saviour of thousands till the day he was gunned down by a death squad allegedly put together by his arch rival Suri who wanted to avenge his father’s and brother’s deaths, in a bizarre déjà vu.
I have been following Ravi’s rise to power since long, but I first heard of Suri only after the bomb explosion at Rama Naidu Studios. I was both amazed and chilled to see that even after being confined to a prison cell, how the fire of Suri’s vengeance continued to burn unabated for 7 long years till he finally succeeded, armed with nothing but a severe desire to kill Ravi as his one and only weapon.
In my research for the film I have met various associates of Paritala Ravi and Suri and also their family members. I have also met Suri who is presently lodged in Anantpur jail on trial for the killing of Ravi and what I finally managed to piece together from all the various police records and eye witness accounts is the most fascinating story I have ever heard or could hope to hear in my life. This is the story of a man’s phenomenal rise to power and a story of the most intense blood curdling conflict ever heard of between 2 individuals and it is also the ultimate statement on the oft heard disastrous consequences of a fatal mixture of caste, crime, family feuds and politics.
I decided to film this story at one stretch and release it in 2 parts about 3 months from each other, a first of its kind ever attempted in the history of Indian cinema. I want to call the films Rakta Charitra- I and Rakta Charitra-II. Why I want to make it in 2 parts is because, the sheer drama and content the story possesses is so incredibly rich and of such high magnitude that it is not possible to do justice to do it in a film which is lesser than 5 hours. Also Ravi’s life can be broadly divided into 2 parts from the time how circumstances created his rise to how he created circumstances that felled him.
I believe that Rakta Charitra is going to be the most defining film of my career not because of how well I will make it but sheerly because of the material I have at my hand. To put it simply I don’t have to work hard to make it well but I have to work hard to spoil it.
2009/4/6 My reactions on reactions1. Do you keep changing your directorial approach like for instance, post Naach till Sarkar Raj I see a difference?
Ans: Directorial approach largely depends on the theme of the film and the characters I am dealing with. 2. In Sarkar how were the killings of Selvar Mani, Vishram and Rashid countsructed?
Ans: In real life death comes as unexpected and as random as that. 3. I just hope youngsters don’t start believing in your theories and get carried away.
Ans: I hope they will as then they will get carried over. Anyway I think nobody believes in anything or anyone. They will just hold on to one belief system or the other at different stages and phases of their lives very much like a ship anchoring at different places in the course of its travel. “You say you found me, but until you find yourself you can’t find me, and the day you truly find yourself you will remain yourself.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra)
4. How did Satya an engg student become a doctor?
Ans: I never said we were classmates or college mates in engineering. We were both in Siddhartha College at Vijayawada. She a student in Siddhartha Medical College and me in Siddhartha Engg. College and those days they both operated from the same compound. 5. Why do you think getting rid of conscience is godly?
Ans: I believe that our life is nothing but a conflict between wanting to and having to and in between lies the conscience. So if you get rid of your conscience you can live a life as pure as that of an animal. 6. Can you elaborate on the “dog dying in South Africa” (referring to Mohan Krishna’s mail on your blog)?
Ans: I will soon write a piece on that. 7. I have an idea for Sarkar III; how Subash Nagre started his life as an immigrant labourer and then became a union leader and then a political power. Abhishek can play the young Sarkar. What say? Ans: Nothing. 8. Do you look down on people who oppose your thoughts?
Ans: On the contrary I enjoy them as I am fascinated with the amazingly different point of views. 9. You said “I had a fear of rejection from Satya”. Did you have the same fear of rejection from the audience about your first film?
Ans: I never feared the audience as they are just nameless and faceless individuals whereas Satya is an individual I loved and hence feared. 10. Dumbo, if it’s just to impress Satya why didn’t you just write a cute love story?
Ans: Double dumbo, it’s because at that time love stories were around plenty and I thought this article will be unique. I just didn’t realize that there are people like you and Satya also in this world, and yes, that was my triple dumbness. 2009/4/2 My reactions to reactions1. What is death?
Ans: Will let you know as soon as I die. 2. Bastard you are really a genius.
Ans: Well. I wish Satya thought the same. 3. I think you are bored, lonely and just want to show off.
Ans: You are right on the third charge. 4. Do you really think that everything in the world is just an individual’s interpretation?
Ans: Yes, not only an individuals but every living beings interpretation. You will want to make love to a beautiful woman and a lion will want to eat her. 5. How come the language in the “God” essay and your other blogs is so different?
Ans: Dumbo, that’s because it’s written more than 2 decades back. 6. How come you gained so much knowledge in philosophy and yet so poor in studies?
Ans: Precisely because I was reading philosophy instead of text books. 7. What was the thought behind the dialogue in Satya when Chander says “Dekh bhagwaan bhi diyela hai”?
Ans: That was improvised by the actor. 8. Is this the place where you satisfy your ego?
Ans: Just one among many places. 9. Why did you mention Satya in your pre text of the article?
Ans: I just wanted to tell the truth behind my motivation to write it and I swear this on the mother of the guy who commented that I added that just for massala. 10. Instead of this essay why didn’t you just tell her one of your superb jokes?
Ans: Back then I used to be a super serious guy. 11. I can’t believe that Satya didn’t fall for an intelligent guy like you. Ans: Ahem! I didn’t make Satya. God did. If I made her, I would have made her better. 12. What do you think of yourself?
Ans: Too much. 13. Was Sridevi’s name in Kshana Kshanam a tribute to Satya?
Ans: Yes. 14. It’s amazing that people are more interested in your love story than the article itself.
Ans: Well that explains Yash Chopra. 15. When a lion is standing in front of you then you will want God to be with you.
Ans: Dumbo, I would rather want to be the lion. 16. How much did Ramoji Rao pay you for the “The Ideas That Killed 30 million People” article?
Ans: 95 Rupees. 17. My girl friend loves you. She is jealous that you have written so much for Satya.
Ans: Ahhhh! One of these days I think I will steal your girlfriend. 18. Good for Satya that she didn’t fall for you. If married to you she would have gone through torture.
Ans: Not torture but she would have been surely bored to death. 19. Can we call these essays “RGV ki Geetha”?
Ans: Yeah and I am sure many of you would want to burn it in “Aag”. 20. Do you think you are the same person since you wrote the article?
Ans: No. Back then I was a megalomaniac by instinct and now I am a megalomaniac through understanding. 21. For an atheist why did you think so much about God? Ans: Double dumbo, only because I thought about God I became an atheist na. 2009/4/1 Essay on God – Part 7 & My Comments on Yours CommentsEssay on God – Part 7.
My Nirvana
If god is the supreme power which creates everything, and has the capacity to destroy anything, and is the sole force responsible for every physical and emotional activity that takes place, then our own effort to reach god should be in direct proportion to the degree of power we wish to procure.
To explain this in a practical case, let us take the case of a man working as a clerk in a big firm. Let’s say the aim of this man is to one day become the general manager. Or, in other words, he wants to have the entire office in his power. So he works hard to win the approval of the seniors and in time, by the age of his retirement, let us suppose he has reached the post of an assistant manager. Originally he cherished to be the general manager of the firm; but he succeeded only in partial.
Now, suppose there is another clerk, who has reached the post of the assistant manager, not by means of hard work, but because of his knowledge of how to bribe or butter the right people. Here, how you get to the top should not be of concern in as the morality and legality of “HOW” is determined by the society for its own social motives. The only caution the clerk should have is of the power that will oppose his efforts.
Some people live for their work or what they believe in, and they will not value even their own life. Examples of these types of people are fanatics of religion, political parties, patriotism, people who love, hate etc. The very fact that they are ready to sacrifice their lives for what they want to achieve, shows that, to live is not their primary objective. But, if the objective is to live, then the sequence of wanting to experience a better and better quality of life follows, then my power theory of Nirvana applies. This is the real Nirvana because it benefits no external agents and can be realized only by oneself and ones own will.
Also, it is possible that even where a man who controls a great section of the society can himself be easily victimized by a lone man with a gun, or might fall to a viral disease. These, then are the hazards a man must continually try to defeat and overpower and go higher and higher to god.
The man who gains maximum control, and who understands the nature of life and the agendas of the society, and who has got rid of his conscience is a relative god. In order to reach god, you must attain his abilities. In other words, we must try to become God ourselves.
END.
My comment on your comments on the “God” essay
In many of the comments and reactions I have noticed that quite a few missed the point of this essay and took every thought of mine to a completely different direction. Right at the outset before the 1st Part was put on the blog I mentioned that this essay was just meant for those curious enough to know how I used to think 27 years back. So for all practical purposes I too have quite a few comments to make on my own thinking of that time.
I am definitely impressed with myself, that given my age and my limited exposure, that I could think so much even though those very thoughts today to me seem too simplistic and juvenile. I am not the same man I was 27 years back. I could have become worse or better depending on from whose point of view one sees but I am definitely very different.
The change in each of us will be affected by factors such as our exposure, the people we keep meeting and interact with, the books we read and the experiences we go through. Let alone 27years ago, I don’t think I am the same man today as I was a week ago.
P.S: For the people who bombarded me with questions on my present relationship with Satya the girl who I wrote this essay for, I want them to know that Satya never knew about my love for her. She considered me as a kind of weirdo always talking intellectual stuff. She being very beautiful and because I could not compete with the really good-looking guys hovering around her for her attention, I tried to win her with this essay which has what I thought was my intelligence. This miserably flopped as she never read this essay beyond the first para of Part 1.
She gave it back to me and said “It is too boring for me and I can’t understand why you have to take life so seriously!” Well, I could not tell her that the truth of writing the essay was not about taking life seriously but it was about my love for her and I never expressed my love to her because my pride came in my way and also ofcourse I had a tremendous fear of rejection.
Last I heard of her, she is married and is a practicing doctor and lives in New York. |
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