Look around us, people are busily engaged in many things;
serious, silly or sincere; inducing a spurt of smile or
laughter; of fun, scorn or sympathy; on our lips. You and
me are no exception. We too contribute to others fancy.
"Of God's creations, only man can laugh
For, to be laughed at, he does lot enough"
Laughing at others, we should also be bold to direct the
very scorn at ourselves. But many of us simply won't or
refuse to in the belief that each one of us is an
exception. Laughter is a good medicine and, coming out of
the hermit shell, we should learn to laugh at all
laughable actions of the self and others.
Man is sincere to and concerned only about himself. In
his frenzy to own all the comforts and happiness of the
world, he forgets his roots, tradition, nobility, culture
and obligations towards the society, rendering his every
action a ludicrous one.
"Man invented money for trading;
But, on man, money is now treading"
Money has become everything to man and he is today and
addict to it. His prayers, religious rites and marital,
paternal, filial and fraternal relationships are guided
by the quantum of money inflow. Here, in this era, man
would do anything for handful of money because money is
power.
Man derives all pleasures, respect, opportunities, and
even a ticket to contest elections as candidate of a
popular political party, get through it and reach
positions on the top rung of political ladder by mere
might of money. When the moneyed scoop all the fortunes
on earth, the poor can only gaze agape at them, with a
sigh.
The moneyed may be able to buy everything on earth, but
not love. To exploit and live under his opulence, even
distant relations and kith around him will pretend to
love him. He will live in a fool's paradise believing
that all of them really care for him, until the day his
last pie is drained off and the love, sincerity and the
loyalty of this so-called kith and kin are put to the
acid test.
Even after knowing the occult deceptive function of it,
man stakes his life in the grand race for money. Blinded
by the spell of its tinkle, money becomes everything for
him. He plunges into all sorts of malpractice to earn
money and to create a comfortable cushion of savings.
No man is an exception to it. However, the most culpable
are the public servants that have turned the public
offices into private profit centres. Their pray are the
poorest of the poor and those who are in distress.
Religious consciousness and respect for human values are
overtly exhibited and upheld by him and he goes though
all the rites and customs, in the guise of a man
committed to social well being, camouflaging the evil
intentions that lie deep beneath his heart. The places of
worships, priests, charitable institutions and social
organisations get profuse patronage from such people who
literally steal the show wielding money. The poor are
trampled to earth by the moneyed in their endeavour to
grow tall, tall and taller, piercing the sky.
As the obeisance for money grew, the religious devotion
became a mere ritualistic showpiece without any priming
or pricking of conscience. Not only the religious rites,
but also man's every interaction with his family,
relatives and the society, in general, have become a real
deplorable mockery. The sacred profession people select
are also being desecrated by taking short cuts to riches
at the cost of quality.
Religious fanaticism is another epidemic that has, of
late, invaded the mankind. The intolerance of alien faith
assumed devastating proportions and threatens the very
existence of social, national and international amity.
While none of the staunch fanatics have met God and
ascertained his identity, they do not realise, all their
frenzies to safeguard and sanctify the name they
attribute to the God are all ill disposed. The masses
follow the religious leaders blindly reminding the
innocent children that walked into the back of beyond
trailing the Pied Piper under the spell of his magical
music.
God and the religions are creations of man for the
betterment of mankind. Trifling all tenets and codes of
moral conduct of their religion, the fanatics violently
impose their ideology on the followers of alien faith and
get easily infuriated on expression of slightest
dissention of criticism.
Where will this tendency take us? I am afraid, back to
savagery. I dart my thoughts towards all social evils,
sprouted from the lust of money, egoism, and religious
fanaticism, in the form of couplet quips, philosophy
instilled and sarcasm anointed.
Many of these couplets are impregnated with occult and
thought-provoking concepts and the reader may have to
think and think over, even traverse through religious
scriptures to enjoy the real kick of it.
I do not know how far I have succeeded in making an
impact on the conscience of society and in summoning one
and all to throw down their gloves against this social
menace.
You are the judge. I welcome your bouquets and brickbats
alike and, whichever it may be, I love to treasure it
within the inner lobe of my heart, wrapped in velvet,
forever.