Friday, September 5, 2008

Does GOD believe in caste/creed/GOATEE ??


DISCLAIMER :- I AM NOT HERE TO PREACH/TEACH BUT TO OBSERVE AND COMMENT


Last week i went on a vacation/adventure trip with my college friends to many different places.
And the last one of them included a very famous temple in the midst of the mountains.

Now presently i have a goatee which somewhat resembles the traditional beard usually worn by the people of the Muslim community.
All the people in the temple were receiving the blessings from the So-Called-Pundit, and when my turn came i went up to him and spread my hands in front of him to take the prasad and bowed my head in reverence to the almighty and also so that the Pundit might put the TILAK on my head.

But instead of doing that the Pundit looks at me, and instead of blessing me asks m of what caste am I?
When i told him that i am a Hindu Brahmin, he still didnt seem to believe me and looked at me suspiciously and started preaching to me that if i am Brahmin (a so called higher caste in the Indian-playing field of religion) then why do u have a Goatee like a common Muslim?

He almost refused me the prasad, but then seeing the queue behind me finally gave in. But even though the whole time i was in the temple looking around the pundits refused to leave me for a single moment and he kept on looking at me suspiciously as if i was someone who had just destroyed the Sanctity of his Pious Temple

But then i suddenly saw the Statue under which the Pundit was sitting, it was that of the Indian God HANUMAN with his hands folded humbly and smiling at all the onlookers as if he held a secret which was unknown to everyone or knew what you were thinking at that moment was smiling at the ignorance of the person sitting at his feet.

And Lo and Behold the statue of HANUMAN had a thick black beard which resembled the traditional Muslim Beard in a much better way then my small goatee might ever do.

I was awed by the audacity and the ignorance of the small insignificant creature sitting at the God's feet and giving out decisions on whats wrong and whats right without even considering where he is or in which position.

Now when the God's do not discriminate in the matters of facial hair who are we to do so....


DISCLAIMER :- I AM NOT HERE TO PREACH/TEACH BUT TO OBSERVE AND COMMENT


THIS IS COSMIC BLASTING OFF....


2 comments:

Anne John said...

Interesting... I got reminded of my trips to some temples when I was urged by well-meaning people to hide the cross around my neck with my dupatta :-(

cosmic_wanderer said...

@Anne,

It is indeed unfortunate, that even in this day and age, when the people are willing to rise above the racial and religious divide and embrace each others beliefs, sometimes its the followers/preachers of these same religions who act as Gatekeepers to pass judgement as to Who is Worthy and Who is not and prove to be the greatest hindrance in spreading the message of equality and unity.

Cheers,
Shrijeet

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