Thursday, June 26, 2008
pop Gandhi
Gandhigiri-celibacy, are those words related? As a netizen Ignoramus should search wikipedia etc. and the first impression is they are not. And Satyagraha, perhaps a Sanskrit word, becomes a conflict though nonviolent. Boodhoo thought Satyagraha as interest in truth and to try sticking with (seeking) truth. Conflict, to him, is the most unusual word related to Satyagraha, although it is coined in public by the great great Gandhiji and applied in freedom movement of
‘Satyanweshi’ perhaps a Bengali word, is a seeker of truth too but used to decorate a detective, who has a very limited field of truth to play with.
A Hindu bachelor has nothing to do with Celibacy. To practice celibacy, is it celibate, one have to first marry. Look at them, MahaPrabhu Chaitanya Dev, Ramakrishna of Bengal, Mahatma Gandhi and many other Hindu greats, prophets and saints; perhaps Buddha may safely be added to that list. What about Sri Nanakji, the Sikh Guru; did he propose celibacy too? Mr. Satyabrata may answer.
