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589 Sumit Paul The world knows Carl Gustav Jung as a great psychoanalyst and Sigmund Freud’s estranged friend, but very few know that the legendary psychiatrist was also a very emotional man, who once wrote to his friend and rued that people often forget his birthday. Jung was born on July 26. Since I share my birthday with the great man, I empathise with his emotional outburst all the more. Despite my claims of not caring a fig for people’s wishes, I secretly long to hear ‘Happy Birthday’. After all, I’m human, not a stoic or a sage. So, when I don’t get to hear it from my close acquaintances, I get slightly depressed. ....
Like meditation, prayer too is above religion May 10, 2021, 7:39 AM IST ‘More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.’ – Alfred Tennyson In these precarious times when life is on the precipice and so precarious that anything might happen at any moment, the beleaguered mankind turns to god and resorts to fervent prayers. A handful of hardcore atheists may snigger at this. But years ago I remember reading, ‘A prayer has nothing to do with theism or atheism. It’s even beyond spirituality. A prayer, like universal morality, is non-theistic. It’s a gesture of thankfulness, not necessarily directed towards anyone or any specific or esoteric object.’ Persian Sufi poet Fariduddin Attar called a prayer: ‘Nisdaa’boon khud-shafi’ – self-cleansing soliloquy. ....
377 Sumit Paul Nihaan hai har aurat mein ek maa ka dil/ Har soorat mein aurat pehle maa hai. Tariq Aurangabadi So true. Embedded in every woman is the heart of a mother! I can vouch for the profundity of this line. Brought up as a motherless child, yet receiving motherly love from a host of wonderful women at every juncture of life, I could empathise with the eternal truth that a woman is first and foremost a mother. Studying in Iran and living at a boarding school in Tehran, my first experience of meeting a motherly woman happened when I met my warden’s wife, Mrs Mehnaaz. She was a personification of all that’s affable and angelic in this world. I’ll ever cherish her beatific smile. Knowing that I lived alone and was a vegetarian, she used to cook vegetarian dishes for me and eventually turned a vegetarian, much to the amusement of her hardcore non-vegetarian husband, who was my warden at the hostel. Then came Mrs Shabihah Shaheen. She taught me English and w ....
228 Sumit Paul Many years ago, a girl from Bombay (sorry, no Mumbai for me) mailed me after chancing upon my email ID in a magazine. What struck me was her name: Anastha (unbelief). I had never come across a person having such a name. I asked whether her parents gave her this unusual name or she chose it for herself. She told me that her Brahmin parents gave her a conventional name: Anusuya (a goddess). But she didn t like it, and after growing up, when she lost all faith in ‘god’ and religion, she rechristened herself as Anastha. I was very impressed. Not because she relinquished her parental yes, every religion is parental, you don t choose it for yourself, your parents foist it upon you religion; she had the guts to rechristen herself in a fearless manner. ....