Are your bags ready?

One more Akshaya Tritiya is back (May 16) and many more pamphlets, innovative advertisements and attractive offers too are back. One can witness mad rush at gold and silver shops on that day. Many ‘ordered’ bags are getting ready at the shops to be delivered to the customers on that day.

In these times of global economic crisis, my husband jovially remarked once that I am never a good strategic planner as I don’t even have the inclination to buy gold in terms of assets and that we could have been millionaires if only I had the gold madness a bit like others. I have madness on other subjects but not on gold, much to his misfortune. Thankfully he is also not an avid investor. :D

Seriously speaking, the original meaning of the day seems to be completely lost in today’s world where trade and commerce are exercised even in relationships. The Golden Day is converted into Gold day to suit our convenience and selfishness. God would surely laugh at His children’s nonsensical pranks. But let us also remember that He is capable of raising His voice a bit any time like a concerned parent and the result might end up like the one in the film ‘2012’.

Whether one accepts ‘2012’ as a fact or fiction, I could well agree to one fact that such things have happened in the past. The disintegration of Pangaea to the present state of Gaia is explained only in this way.

Talking of the film, there is nothing scary about it though. In fact I was overawed by the graphics wherein the power of nature especially water could completely submerge the entire California state to start with, in a few minutes. There was one moment that touched me deeply and that was the US President’s decision to stay back.

Thanks to Atul’s pestering, I enjoyed watching the fantasy movie ‘Percy Jackson and the lightning thief’. This is a film for teenagers. Here, the main protagonist is a young son of Water God of Greece and in the climax, it is the water that comes to the rescue of the boy. Actually, more than anything else, the power of water is what is overwhelming me these days.

My sixth sense is warning me, ‘Beware! This Power of Water is in abundance on earth. Are your bags ready?’

At least from this Akshaya Tritiya onwards, if only we collectively change every selfish act into a selfless one, we would never face another disintegration or dislocation of land and water.