If I ask you what is the
most important thing for a human being in life, I
am sure most of you will say that it may vary from person to person depend upon
their physical, mental and financial situation. Anyway, this question came in
my mind while watching an old movie. In the movie an artist
who was playing as a comedian has an obsession of appreciation or you can say
that he wants to listen only good word for his poetry or “Shayri”. This artist
or so called poet was so much obsessed to hear his “‘Wah Wah” that he
even offered free food, drinks and snacks to his friend or audience.
These audiences were so
much mischief that they appreciate his boring poetry with fake inspiration and
so much false appreciation that they enjoyed his free stuff time to time.
Whenever these folks need anything from him, they come to his shop or house,
hear his poetry for a while and took free stuff.
I am sure most of you have
might have seen pretty much this type of scenarios in other movie time to time.
Technically, listening appreciation or expecting accolades for every tiny task
or on actions is some kind of weakness in a person, who needs an attention and
want to show the world that he has a some kind of special talent.
This incident reminded me
a conversation which happened with my boss a long time ago. That time, I
had joined a private company and while doing some gossips with my
boss, Mr Nagar, I asked him, Boss!
How could a person can
survive in a private job? He stared me with a strange glance and asked, why are
you asking this type of question?
Actually, I have had
a very tough time in my previous jobs and second thing I was the first person
in my family to work in a private job, I said.
He shook his head like a
philosopher and said, Look, every person has a an ego, you have to find his ego
and satisfied it. If you do in the beginning, you have better chances to
get along with this person. In a nutshell, every human being has an ego to
satisfy or empties of appreciation or love to receive flattering, what you have
to do, just satisfy it, that’s it.
This was a very small
lecture from him, but was a great indeed. If we look around, what we will see
that everybody have some kind of emptiness inside and they are looking a way to
fill it by some means?
If we observe very
carefully in our surrounding what we will notice that this is very common in
the “Artist” or people those are in a creative field as Movie actor, Writer,
Singer, Parnassian, Poet etc. These people spent hours and days to do some
creative work and they want to show their creations to the world. If they don’t
get an appreciation in exchange them, it’s failure to them, without
appreciation they feel an emptiness inside, to fill that, they can go to any
level.
The history tells us that
some players and movie actors those got the sudden fame and prosperity were not
able to handle this, they were surrounded by fawning people and in the result,
eventually they lost everything. In Bollywood we have seen that so many movie
stars are surrounded by this type of people.
Technically, this is some
type of intoxication or in medical term, we called this Attention deficiency
syndrome (ADS). In a natural way, all of us are infected with this syndrome,
however, these become as a disease when someone becomes obsessed for
flattering.
Why I am writing this topic
today, I have been observing this phenomenon in the spiritual world though as a sicker level?
If you pay attention to
this that so many writers are writing blogs every day, but it looks very
strange and shocking to see that to just get some false appreciation from the
community, blog writers are doing very cheap activities.
As all we know that
writing is a very noble profession and for some it’s a hobby and for some folks
it is a healing process though. But, what is the point of writing something
which has been written by someone earlier somewhere and you have just copied
from there and post a blog about it with your name?
You have copied, it’s not
a crime, however, if you don’t mention the writer’s name or don’t quote or put
some reference regarding original contents in your blog that you have
some inspiration from some website or blog then what is the meaning of this?
Copying some ideas or material like that, Do you really think, it has any
worth?
I think the whole purpose
of writing blogs is to show the world that you want to share or say something
you have felt or experienced in the life.
This is not ending here,
yet, some time blog writers make false hits and comments on their blogs to make
it popular, where all these things lead us?
I am so much astonished to
see this in the spiritual world, then what is the point of talking about
“Awkening, Self Realization, Healing, Enlightenment, Peace,
Forgiveness” etc. when you have already confined yourself too tight with
Self infatuations.
I would like to ask all
the spiritual people, all of you talk about salvation, sacrifice and no greed
then how would you justify yourself when you are looking such a cheap
popularity?
Same question, I would
like to ask the management of speaking tree, if you charge some additional
money to display the blog on the front page, then how would you claim yourself
as a spiritual community?
If we are looking for
money, false appreciations, fake recognitions and flattering than how our soul
will get peace and salvation?
If we are seriously
looking for the real journey of self realization than we have to get rid of
this normal human being's behavior of listening Flattering, Self Infatuation
& Show off, Otherwise, the rest of our life, we may stick in a loop, where
all this will go round and round like “Merry Go”.
Or will take birth,
rebirth again ad again to achieve our real meaning of salvation.
By
kapil Kumar
Note: “Opinions expressed
are those of the authors, and are not official statements. Resemblance to any
person, incident or place is purely coincidental”. The Author will not be
responsible for your deeds.
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