This is regarding one of the courses i am presently attending.. the art of living. some say i joined because i had gone nuts like everyone else....that i had succumbed to pressure of its volunteers.... the volunteers were saying i joined to enlighten my own life...the reasons of my joining might remain undisclosed... but one of the experiences worth sharing goes like this....
there is a section called as satsung...in this section the stage is equipped with few vocalists, an electric guitar... tabla n congo i guess...the trick here is to hypnotise the crowd with chants of "Hare Rama.."...:Ganpati Bappa Moraya"....Lord Brahma...Lord Vishnu...Lord Shankar...so on, enveloped in d modern beats ...its a fusion to say the least..take a shloka...add some modern guitar strokes with a flavour of tabla n congo n u have 'devotees' waving on ur tunes...some find it amazing...some find it blissful...what I feel is, its like the nutritious vegetables tht grow in your own back yard....the only thing is tht you disregard it for some useless 'jungli' stuff.....this 'jungli' stuff is harvested from our own backyard....processed thoroughly...cooked well with spices and served as customer favourite recipe....served at a very high price ofcourse.....
What do we call this???commercialisation??loot??selling sumthng tht is already available for free...i hav not been a big fan of these management people...they survey the people....study their mentality...find their weaknesses...likings n dislikings....develop product just to suit these needs and cash on it....nevermind the impact it has on the youth or the younger generation who literally observe a lot....when this will create an weakness in the youth...they will find sumthng other to cash on it... Nation to relations....they know well to play with emotions, n commercialise on it......
The point is....i thought on the same lines abt this situation...wrapping the chants of Hindu Devtas in the addiction n weakness of today's youth...music, n serving them hot...n earning hard cash over it...but the next thing tht striked my mind was....this is the only language tht today's youth understands....the 'moving-on-with-the-world' culture has made most of us forget our real culture as its not as trendy with the fast moving lifestyle..agreed many people still beieve in preseving it the way it is..but one cannot expect everyone to wear keshari jhabas n enforce the culture by crashing through malls.....if this technique appeals to the youth of today n they are ready to pay a price for it then so be it... the organisers will continue cashing on it until the people realise wat they are buying and start cultivationg it for themselves...later on some new weakness will show up n so will the commercialisation...
to conclude...though i found it to have a little effect on me, this Modern vedic fusion seems the temperory solution to bind the youth of today with the culture from the past.....
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a cool observation man...so true, but then i guess once u seperate urself fr atleast 30min frm all the electronic gadgets...walk on grass...or may b mediate-it can get u back to urself....
ReplyDeletenewayz...i guess this too dosent make nesens...and all i say is BS...coz i cant imagine 30min without gtalk!!
cool post...
Dude u hit d nail right on its head.......
ReplyDeletexactly same feelings i managed to manage when i managed to manage this course......
I haven't attended art of living, but my opinion for any kind of attempt "life-coaching" is the same.
ReplyDeleteOur acquaintance to put it mildly is ZERO, but I want to present an idea so that you could chew on it. Why do we, or for that matter, any generation need to "preserve" their culture? I'm not saying we should discard everything that we receive from the older generations. We've to continue to follow what makes sense, but not with a feeling of obligation.
Look at it carefully, none of our ancestors actually tried to preserve their culture/traditions, otherwise our civillization would not have evolved so much from the times of bronze age, and we'd have never really embraced the concepts of education, gender and caste equality, or given up on practices like female feticide, sati or killing bride for dowry. Do we need to preserve the latter practices?
Whatever practices we choose to follow should be after objective analysis of their worth and not because of sense of duty towards our old traditions. Such tendency would lead to stagnation of society.
TC.