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i have been reading ever since i learned alphabets.
my first book, 16 pages booklet, was written by ishwar chandra vidyasagar in red cover in recycled paper costing one paisa from a daily open bazar of madhupur. my mother asked sejomama to buy. how i remember so much detail when it was about 67 years ago. i remember the excitement of having a book that was exclusively mine. it did not take more than couple of days to know everything it contained. i had enumerable question about two page story it contained in the end. gopal bit his aunty's ear for excessive love that spoilt him!
i have read many thousands of books ever since. some hundreds i have possessed at any point of time in last 50 years. they were my possessions rather asset to display or talk about. once read it is over not to think any further. no book was for my daily reading. then why did i buy? my mother and her mother did read geeta everyday after taking bath and after puja. Some books once heard or read is enough for lifetime are shruti. One keeps seeing similarities in daily life. correctness is not important nor do i like to make any further research. just they crop up from my memory seeing some incidence, perhaps. they are my tranquilisers. i am forever drugged by shruties.
daily reading of some books and practicing detachment may make the reader serene tranquil and peaceful. one becomes harmonious with the world that is ever changing. i have seen that in my mother. she was not desperate even when she had us to feed and she had nothing. she was becoming a saint as she grew old. one thing for sure she did not want me to be ~ i am running for fame money or people honor. in her words, money is essential but money appears somehow when needed. this is very remarkable observation by her. she definitely did not approve of my going to bahrain. she agreed with my decision only when i told her it was not at all for money that i was going there. i did not explain any further, the circumstances that resulted in my temporary leave from India ~ a series of disappointments with my career profession and adulthood. i took about 50 books with me when i went to bahrain. none very important. i took a fat bound book for sketching that i did not use at all for sketching. but i filled it with my thoughts.
now i know all my life i was guided by self. i was never at a loss. always a door was open for me. quit. i never ever compromised in life. i cannot be trapped into something. ANYTHING OR ANYONE OR ANY HABIT. none and nothing is necessity. i did take no support in my life people honor medicine food family or book ... my world cannot trap me. my world lacks that power.
many i have seen got trapped by book guru habits work money people disease. they have closed the empty gap that had no door.
this story below i like very much.
my first book, 16 pages booklet, was written by ishwar chandra vidyasagar in red cover in recycled paper costing one paisa from a daily open bazar of madhupur. my mother asked sejomama to buy. how i remember so much detail when it was about 67 years ago. i remember the excitement of having a book that was exclusively mine. it did not take more than couple of days to know everything it contained. i had enumerable question about two page story it contained in the end. gopal bit his aunty's ear for excessive love that spoilt him!
i have read many thousands of books ever since. some hundreds i have possessed at any point of time in last 50 years. they were my possessions rather asset to display or talk about. once read it is over not to think any further. no book was for my daily reading. then why did i buy? my mother and her mother did read geeta everyday after taking bath and after puja. Some books once heard or read is enough for lifetime are shruti. One keeps seeing similarities in daily life. correctness is not important nor do i like to make any further research. just they crop up from my memory seeing some incidence, perhaps. they are my tranquilisers. i am forever drugged by shruties.
daily reading of some books and practicing detachment may make the reader serene tranquil and peaceful. one becomes harmonious with the world that is ever changing. i have seen that in my mother. she was not desperate even when she had us to feed and she had nothing. she was becoming a saint as she grew old. one thing for sure she did not want me to be ~ i am running for fame money or people honor. in her words, money is essential but money appears somehow when needed. this is very remarkable observation by her. she definitely did not approve of my going to bahrain. she agreed with my decision only when i told her it was not at all for money that i was going there. i did not explain any further, the circumstances that resulted in my temporary leave from India ~ a series of disappointments with my career profession and adulthood. i took about 50 books with me when i went to bahrain. none very important. i took a fat bound book for sketching that i did not use at all for sketching. but i filled it with my thoughts.
now i know all my life i was guided by self. i was never at a loss. always a door was open for me. quit. i never ever compromised in life. i cannot be trapped into something. ANYTHING OR ANYONE OR ANY HABIT. none and nothing is necessity. i did take no support in my life people honor medicine food family or book ... my world cannot trap me. my world lacks that power.
many i have seen got trapped by book guru habits work money people disease. they have closed the empty gap that had no door.
this story below i like very much.
abdallah is often asked the secret behind his serenity
i know what is in quran
what is in quran
an imbecile in chaikhana asked
when he has just finished saying so
in my quran i have a letter from my friend khalid and a fresh flower
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