Coup On Literature – 2 [The pillars to the sky]

There is a sequence of action and reactions, causes to these actions and reactions in that story. A logical relation among the action and its cause is getting introduced in the very childhood it self. Being kids, the sequence, the relation among cause and action, we used to say “Woon!” as our response to our mother or father or elder who ever told the story of the king-seven sons.

There starts the literature touch in our life. I narrate another story of my childhood which I read in ‘Chanda mama’ the children’s magazine. I’m sorry to say that I have forgotten the name of the writer of this story because I read it in my childhood. I narrate it for you to share my sweet memory and feelings with you. ’

అనగా అనగా ………..

Long long ago, in a village there was an innocent young man named Ranganna. He was an orphan. One day, after dinner, he lay on small cot in the open air. That was full moon day. He was watching the beauty of stars, moon and clouds. Suddenly he got an idea as the sky was a big pandal or tent. But nowhere its pillars were seen. Then why could not it fall down? Such that, innocent Ranganna doubted about the existence of sky. He felt fear that the sky fall on the earth by any moment.

Then he started running by shouting, “People all you run away! The sky is going to fall down on to the earth. Save your self. Run! Run!”

By shouting like this he ran through the streets of the village and reached the end of the village. Nobody cared about his shouting’s and himself because villagers know about his innocence. He didn’t stop running. He departure the village and entered into the forest. Where ever he gone, when he looked up he could see sky over his head. By that he increased his speed and ran in that night. By running like that, finally he reached a hut i.e. Ashram of a Saint who was in ‘Dhyanam.’

Ranganna fallen on the feet of the Saint, with grasping voice he said “Swamiji! The sky is falling down, onto the earth. Run from here. Save your life.”

With kind voice, the Saint asked him “My dear boy! Why are you feeling like that?”

Ranganna replied “why not Swamiji! Won’t you see that the sky is like pandal; but having no pillars? At any moment, it can fall onto the earth.”

With pleasing voice the Saint said “No my child! There are pillars on the earth to bear sky and to prevent it from falling onto the earth.”

Ranganna immediately with wonder asked “Where?” The Saint replied him “I’ll show you. Now you sleep in my Ashram. In the morning I’ll show you the pillars of the sky.”

With peaceful mind, Ranganna slept there. In the morning, the Saint told him as “Look my boy! Go to nearby village and fetch food by begging. But while begging, you scold the host with harsh language. After your return, I’ll show you the pillars of the sky.”

Obediently Ranganna agreed for it. He had gone to nearby village and started begging. But whatever the door he touched to beg food, he scolded the host or house wife. Every body got angry on him and tried to beat him and driven him out of their houses premieres. He didn’t get food any where till evening. He was tired and hungry. But he didn’t stop scolding the host while begging food because the Saint told him to do so.

At last, when he was begging food at one door with scolding, the house wife came out of the house with a plateful of food and said to him. ‘Take this food my child! How much hunger you are to scold the host with anger like this. Eat food and satisfy your hunger.”

By saying like this, the housewife i.e. host had given food to him. Ranganna got tears in his eyes that moment. By taking food in hand he approached the Saint in the forest and explained what happened.

The Saint asked him to eat food. He ate it. After relaxed, the Saint clarified his doubt as “Look my dear young boy! You had seen so many people who tried to beat you when you scold them while begging. But among such so many people, there is one lady i.e. one mother who has so much of patience & peace to satisfy your hunger, she didn’t get anger. Such people one among lakhs and crores, who get rid of anger, are the pillars to the sky. God had provided like that. So don’t bother about the sky falling onto the earth. No need to you to fear about it, understand!”

Ranganna the poor innocent guy, happily return to his place.

That’s the entire story.

This story gives the indications to the children that getting rid of anger is good quality. To behave with patience, peacefulness: and without temper is great quality.

So many other lyrics support this ideology.

Our great devotional poet and musicians i.e. ‘Vaggeyakarulu’ Sri Thyaga Raja Swamy had written a song as ‘శాంతము లేకా సౌఖ్యము లేదు.’

That means ‘without patience, we can’t be happy.’

Our another great poet, Baddena had written as

“తన కోపము తన శత్రువు
తన శాంతము తనకు రక్ష దయ చుట్టంబౌ
తన సౌఖ్యము స్వర్గము తన దుఃఖము
నరక మండ్రు మహిలో సుమతి”

That means,

Our anger is our enemy.

Our peacefulness is our protection.

Our kindness is our relative.

Our happiness is our heaven and our sorrow is our own hell in this world.

With this type of literature guide us to live peacefully, truthfully and happily.

Now-a-days the electronic media & T.V. had turned as only alternative to all of arts and literature. On that T.V. one company had given an advertisement like this-A young boy about the age of 20 years was with his friends. He had the bandage on his fore hand. When his friends enquired about it, he recalled his memory as flash back. While he was travelling in a flight, an old lady of aged about 70 years sat beside his seat. She was opening a ‘brand’ biscuit packet. When she started to eat the biscuit from it, this boy tried to take one biscuit from that packet which was in her hands. Immediately she reacted wildly and bitten his fore hand with teeth. But her teeth was artificial dental set, so that it was stuck on his fore hand and he injured by it. Hence, result was the bandage. Though the director of this advertisement want to project a jovial or funny ‘Ad’, but what indication it will give to the kids, who are the main target of that ‘Ad’? First of all, without courtesy and decency, trying to take others object or snatching the biscuit from co-traveler was bad. Second thing is, by that age of 70 years, she didn’t spare another boy for the sake of biscuit, however the taste of biscuit. She was not particular about her behavior, and she was very particular about the joy of eating. If she was not co-traveler to that boy, if she was own relative to that boy, so that he had intimacy to take the biscuit from her, so that there was not the matter of decency, then how that old lady could bite her own relative, that to, very young to her?

If any corporate supporter argue on this as “That Ad. Is only silly, just to attract or just to draw the attention towards the business only, such ‘Ads’ are produced” - is it justiceful? By whatever the silly Ad, if the product get popularity, if the corporate company get business, is it enough? What such Ads provocation in the children and people, is not nessecery? Why the kids don’t think that such behavior of biting others for food like dogs is not wrong, as their grand ma’s aged women are behaving in such manner? Why don’t they think that their grand parents and other elders also behaving like that but only saying morals to us? Who is responsible for such influence on the public thoughts and attitude?

Another is the Ad. Of the Axe, body odor. In that Ad, a young man used such body odor. Immediately five, six young girls hugging him and kissing him, with proud expression he gave a phose. That’s all!

By watching such Ads, if any 14 to 15 years teenaged boy used Axe and with excitement if he waits or if he expects huggings and kissing from surrounding girls, how should not get surprise on it. Such situations, we are reading on newspaper. When such thrill is not received, if any immature boy gets perversion such as inferiority or agony about girls or in satisfaction in life or paranoid psychology or some psychological complexes, the life of young boy will spoil like anything. Can we say such are impossible?

On the other hand, by keeping perverted personality or psychopaths or serial killers as heroes, so many novels and cinemas are poured on the public. Who have to save this human life?

In fact, society is not a dustbin to dump all our ‘Arishadwargams’ onto it. Arishad wargams are six feelings which are desire, anger, miser, craze, proud and jealousy. These are sister like. When we get one feeling, automatically all the other will occupy our brain. The mother to these six sisters is ego. That’s why, Indian philosophy always teaches us to drive out the ego from our mind. All over the world, great philosophers and great persons accepted that ego should not be in us.

After all, in our street, we should not pour garbage of our house on the street, instead of Municipality dustbin. In such case, how some writers and some directors all over the world produced their novels and cinemas as projecting psychopaths or perverted psychology in a sympathetic way, they should know. If anybody argues that “Such psychopaths are there in society, just we are exposing them. That’s all. We are not creating”. Is it correct? Is it necessary to expose the drainage, mud under the pleasant water of the river because of its existence? By doing such, by projecting such with nominal moral in the end, is it not creating or supporting such paranoid or perverted psychologies? ‘Sorry! Just in anger I scold you. Leave it off.’ ‘Sorry! Just in tension. I said such. For get it.’

To say like this are we African lions? In Anglia films, in discovery channel, most of us had seen the documentary on the life of African lions. When the team of lions killed a wild buffalo, while eating it, the lions bite their co-lion. After eating food, the lion, which had bitten the other lion, express its sorry by licking and petting its body.

But we are not lions. We are not animals. We crossed such beast life and approached the so-called civilization. In extreme situations, very often, if one person lost patience and shown temper on others, it is okay. But without affording to control the temper or anger, after doing imbalance behavior and just saying sorry, is it civilization?