My Mind often wonders about the nature of words its domain and its effectiveness.
Why do words have different meanings at different time for speaker and listener?
Why is "mother" different than "Maa", or "Father" different than "Pa" or "Dad"? when they are addressed to same listener by the same speaker?
For a Marathi knowing person why does word "Aai" and "Matoshri" evoke different emotions and responses?
Why does Google take you on a World tour when you search for the word "Love"?
Why does George Bush's words "World Peace" & "Freedom" are different than rest of the
World? And why do they convey contradictory meanings and responses to different people in different countries.
Why are cause and effect different when an employer tells his prospective employee that he is looking for an honest person like him (to run his dishonest business!!??)
Why is word "misquote" synonymous with "media"?
Are words essential tools to play mind games?
Are words only triggers to generate responses? If it is true than why are the responses different?
Why are same words spoken at different time induce different effects like soothing, needle pricks and gunshots?
And why do some words spoken during the greatest self awareness act like detonators? And why (or how) do they result in the cessation of the speaker, listener and the words themselves?
Is that why J Krishnamurti always refrained from establishing the relationship as a speaker and listener?
Is that why my wife always says (usually after her meditation) that when one has experienced, the word "Gratitude" invariably appears grossly inadequate?
Saturday, May 24, 2008
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In oder to understand the meaning of a word pronounced, context is important. It is at the discretion of the listener who takes the meaning of the word to understand it. At any given situation, a cunning and wicked person will always take the meaning of the word according to his bad intentions and desires and will accept for grooming his evil spirit. It is important to keep our mind clear and enrich it with good thoughts, so that any word hits our mind we have to take it positively and nurture it to give goodness to community at large.
lovely thoughts you are sharing with us...thanks....keep it up!
J. Krishnamurti
"The word is not the thing. The word passion is not passion. To feel that and to be caught in it without any volition or directive or purpose, to listen to this thing called desire, to listen to your own desires which you have, plenty of them, weak or strong—when you do that, you will see what a tremendous damage you do when you suppress desire, when you distort it, when you want to fulfill it, when you want to do something about it, when you have an opinion about it.
Most people have lost this passion. Probably one has had it once in one's youth—to become a rich man, to have fame, and to live a bourgeois or a respectable life; perhaps a vague muttering of that. And society—which is what you are—suppresses that. And so one has to adjust oneself to you who are dead, who are respectable, who have not even a spark of passion; and then one becomes a part of you, and thereby loses this passion."
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