What a fantastic celebration of Durga Puja! I am sure Goddess
Durga would be quite impressed with technological advancement of human and must
be appreciating ‘sky is the limit creativity’ in rituals.
When I came back from city trip, I wondered about the amalgam
of current world and the era of the deity. Probably more in terms of responses
of all these Commissions, NGOs, Forum and Activists.
Let’s start with Women Right activists. I feel this
commission would be proudest of all. A Goddess killing an evil is definitely admirable.
The conviction and confidence is an inspiring phenomenon of the goddess. But I
believe, she needed no reservation and didn't looked for other Gods to help and no one
dared to undermine her when she was pursuing her task. Do, we need women
reservation now or a determined effort can do?
Let’s move to Commissions and NGOs on Human Rights. This is
my favorite commission as they never appear when soldiers are killed on borders [did you hear from them on recent Indo-Pak ceasefire violations?] but would definitely up the ante and protest outside secretariats if any
terrorist is not treated well in jail. They might be unhappy lot here. Whatever
immoral the devil has done, he isn’t supposed to be intimidated. He should had
been tried in Gods Court first and then punished. Also, the statues displaying
him on verge of being killed shouldn’t be appreciated in any manner and condemned.
But looks like people in contemporary time choose such fierce display to let
people know what could be result of choosing evil and actually they wanted
people to fear of consequences. I am not sure if they were right as matter lies
in court of conflicting perceptions and it’s yet to be decided whether they
were more intellectual or we?
Animal Right Activists would be sneaking for a say. Why Goddess
is on Tiger? Isn’t tiger has feelings. Also pulling tiger out of Jungle and
domesticating it is injustice to natural habitat of Tiger. Contrary to obvious
notions, what if animal wanted to stay along. Can there be chances that a complete
species or few animals of a species wanting to leave their original habitat for
better living as human do when they migrate from rural to urban places? I am
sure this argument can draw a lot of flak on the ground that they are animals
and don’t think so much but what if my notion is established true? Wouldn’t it
be injustice when a tiger (for say) wanted to stay with human and they are
forcefully confined to Reserved Parks? I am not sure at the moment whether
there is substantive research on animals considering this aspect. Is there any?
Forum against Capital Punishment would be most unhappy of
all. They must have gone on Dharna. How come anyone can be killed (as
punishment) even if they have killed many? But Goddess decided to do that. It
looks like sometimes it’s inevitable when evil crosses certain limit. A threshold
which when breached goes beyond limit of tolerance.
Whatever I think, we think or these organizations thinks,
everyone is either happy or sad over degree of adherence by other people with their
belief. The right and wrong is decided
by population on sides of
perceptions.
Besides, God would be happy to see human still find
happiness in statues depicting elimination of evil, if not in real life. And a
common man struggling each day for livelihood leaves all philosophies to
“confused intellectuals” and is working hard for survival.
