Galbaski

There are very few days in our life where in whatever we do turns out to be gold, we find results in all the things we do. Most of the things in our ever pending list gets resolved so soothingly and makes you believe that we should always act on our intuitions.

Yesterday was one of those countable days where in all my actions were driven by just intuition and the results were very convincing in all the ways. After finishing most of my works i felt i should watch a play today. It was already a couple of months that I had visited Ranga shankara, but it was already 7pm and the play starts at 7.15pm. I thought i should some how make it today. I rushed myself and just managed to squeeze between the closing gates.

"Galbaski" , yes thats the name of the plays name. I have never heard about it earlier, I was even not sure which language the play is until it started.

Sometimes these incidents in your life makes you realize that we should look out and start reading these signs which confronts you very often, may be thats what even Paulo coelho mentioned in his writings.

I was glad that I made it for such a wonderful, thought provoking play. It was really worth for the strain and effort I took in getting there for the play. The play revolves around the life of a prostitute and the way society uses her. The highlight of the play is the character "Mirror". The author is very talented in letting out his message through a common mirror. Everyone likes to see themselves in the mirror but what we see in mirror is not what exactly we are, but the mask we carry upon us.

The play was very well scripted and the Hindustani alap rendered by a young singer was so soothing that most of the time I was watching him singing rather than play. His voice had so much power that, even though it was in the backdrop it was highlighted.

Details:
Play: Galbaski
Playwright: Coffee Raghavendra
Director: KSDL Chandru
Troupe: Roopantara, Bengaluru

I just remembered a Zen meditation which talks about healing powers of mirror. It says if we stand naked in front of the mirror every day for few minutes then we get cleansed naturally without any effort because there is so much power in nakedness and its difficult to watch complete nakedness.

Below is one of my experiments with nakedness.

A Taste of Life

Many considered UG to be an Volcano, because there was so much fire within him that his words would reduce the belief system into ashes within no time. The books and videos of UG that i was exposed would always left in me a feeling of his untouchable authenticity and a fearless fighter within him. But this book for the first time shows his child like nature and his caring nature to his loved ones even when he was in deep pain.

All the books which have been released till date on UG is generally written by his friends who just archived his talks into a book. Most his videos have been shot with normal cameras by his friends and his admirers. Never he had accepted to get on stage and given lectures after his calamity. He always took a stand saying that he is no different from anyone.

It is very much true that when you go searching you will always find what you want. It so happens with the help of cosmos that out of no where suddenly i get to know about the release of this book just two days back and i myself landed in Crossword to meet Mahesh Bhatt , author this book who was in Bangalore to release his book.

This was the first time i had seen Mahesh in person and he seemed to be very much composed. He read the very first chapter of the book with such an emotion that everyone out there was taken into the room of UG where he took his last breath.

The book clears shows how UG walked his talk till the end. UG was so composed even in death by accepting with such open arms. He said that death and birth are no different things and are two faces of the same coin. His talks in his death bed proves his words what he had said during his talks.

The book captures how UG orchestrated his death in detail.

It really makes us realize even in life we would not have lived the way how he lived in his death.

U.G Krishnamurthi - an enigma

Sometimes we step upon few things in life accidentally which eventually change our whole life altogether to the extent that you would not ever imagined in your rarest dreams too. Its brings in you a total transformation and the very next moment you start looking the world with a total new freshness, with few moments of inhaling those unknown fresh fragrance you find a new vitality within you that makes your feel lighter and pacifies you to the extent you never look back for anything else. Its the last stop for the journey called "Search".

Yes, these were my experiences when i stumbled upon this personality when i was searching some thing on the internet and came across him. It was an usual website with the greeting message been replaced by a warning stating something like this.

"U.G Krishnamurti, an enigma--a person who defies all classifications--a philosopher, a Non-guru, guru, call him what you may. But, once you have read even a few words, seen a photo of his, your psyche will never be the same. He will permeate your being. His words and images will infect your mind like a virus. So, proceed with caution in exploring these conversations, quotes and photo".

Yes, It was U.G.Krishnamurthi. After reading and listening to his words my life never been the same. He has so much influence on me. I never intended to be a follower of anyone but his words are so factual and undeniable that you have no way to go than just accept his reasoning. Its brings in so much freshness and makes you feel so light that never ever you turn up for others for your problems because the very thing we considered as problems earlier disappear itself without any effort of yours on its own accord by just mere self understanding. The fear within yourself to face the practical world no longer exists anymore and streams of confidence from an unknown source flows with ease within yourself .

I was planning to write on him for a long time but never it happened, fortunately i saw an ad of a new book on him titled "A Taste Of Life: The Last Days Of U.G.Krishnamurti" written by his very close friend Mahesh Bhatt. Immediately i called upon my friend koshy and raghu and decided to get the copy and also meet the author in person as he was launching the book himself.

Yesterday there was a official book release by Mahesh Bhatt and also a Q&A sessions. It was really a great event organized and with most of the participants who were part of those inner circle most of them who knew UG in person.

I just raised one question to Mahesh Bhatt "Sir, UG is considered to be an anti-guru and through out his life he told that you don't need a guru or anyone to know your self or to lead a contented life, Do you personally feel that is there a need of someone really ?".

He just thought for a second and his answers were very much satisfactory for me. He said " Yes for me, i wanted a master and good that i found one".

His words also found answers for few of my own questions too.

Thanks for Mahesh Bhatt in sharing out his experiences with UG during his last days, when he was waiting for his death. I just finished the whole book in one shot, it is so lively that i never realized when i finished the book it was almost 4.30 am and coincidentally this time relates so much to UG when he was waiting at his death.

Shadow of the Dead

Very rarely you feel that the time and money you spent is really worth for it. Yes i had the same feeling yesterday when i watched the play "Sattavara Neralu".

The play makes you think and view the world in a totally different way and lives you in distress how simple it looks why is that we have complicated our lives so much.

About the Play

Sattavara Neralu is a period performance set in medieval south India, at a time steeped in Brahminical religiosity, where monasteries and maths were as much centers of faith as they were the axis of power and influence. It is a play that attempts to explore the dark politics and the scramble for power that such a rigid milieu spawned. It shakes the philosophical base and intellectually inquires into the eternally rooted beliefs of our society.

Benaka, Bangalore

Dir: B V Karanth

You can also take a safe bet on few of the brands in the market. Its called as " Brand Faith". This brand faith holds very good with Benaka troupe. All there plays will give a feeling of time well spent and thought provoking with humour.

Sattavara Neralu is one my favorite play, it basically questions the very root of the belief system that exists in all monasteries found in all religions through out the world. It makes you realize and destroy the very foundation of the belief system we follow by our acquired knowledge.

Iam not against any monastry heads but what i feel is that when the very original great minds are gone then its gone for ever. When the flower is bloomed and its fragance is felt, it lasts only till it dries out. Once the flower is gone the fragance is also gone with it, You can't have the dead flower its place is in dust bin.

I feel the play is must watch for everyone.

The above snap is from my OSHO album "Pictures of Wisdom".