Understanding Human Psychology

Elephant God is drinking milk. The idol has life.. How can that be possible? That was a question in many minds. But no one asked. They just believed. Their curious minds started adding logic. But magic and miracles are beyond logic.  I was in school, may be in early secondary, when I heard talks the Elephant God is drinking milk, if you offer the idol milk near the trunk, it will be swallowed. Like how? Then there was another news, it's not with any Ganesha idol, but a particular pandal's idol in Mumbai. So many devotees, without questioning, visited the pandal, to quench the thirst of their curious minds and seek blessings of the divine. That year the divine was believed to be present in the idol as if it was live.  Till date I have experienced that miracles are a part of life. We may call them blessings of the lord, we at times say it was pure coincidence, luck is another form of argument. Call it faith or blind trust, ignorance or just love for God. No one still knows if th...

I stood on a platform in the second row. Tried to gulp my nerves and stared at the open area ahead, the hall was humongous. I imagined the audience there and gulped another ball of anxiety down my throat. It was my turn, I raised my voice like a wave and I hummed the lines of the song. My teacher gave me a blank stare and after five seconds told me 'You are singing so beautifully, then why is your face like you have had castor oil?' I released the breath I was holding, and broke into a slight smile, my heart still beating of the fear of being judged of what I was there for. The same feeling which had kept me away from taking the centre spot and playing the lead singer in the western music choir. On the final day I hummed boldly, as I had got a 'great job' tag from my music teacher. Time lapse today I hold my tough emotions close to me. I write to express. I missed writing this last month when I was occupied in caregiving of my loved one. As responsibilities have taken n...