PK

Finally watched PK. Because of so many controversies around it – I decided to go with a very unbiased and open mind.

The movie character PK uses pitfalls of  aspects of Hinduism that ‘sells’ as a commercial object and tries to show people what many of us already know. By putting the stickers of Gods on his cheek he is able to save himself from getting smashed. Or by asking questions from a baba who has entrouge of followers he is able to at-least raise issues of blind faith in such arrangements.  This word arrangement or as PK calls it  wrong line is indeed a business or an arrangement  where the babas claim to produce gold chains or claim to make people healthy by having a direct link with God.

In PK examples have been used from Christianity and from Islam too to show that the arrangement in all religions is simply a business transaction that exploits the fear! The fear of unknown and the insecurity, the focus on material wealth and the need to horde….

If I was to ignore just one fact that he has used more examples from the shams done in Hinduism as a religion and think over it critically this is what I have to say- that God cannot be negated even if not seen (point1) and that scriptures talks of futility of all aspects ( point2) and that it is fear that makes us what we have become.

1) As a physicist- one must only believe is one sees. However how old is our science? Approximately 3oo years old? That would mean that if we do not have technology then  anything that is not observed as yet is to be assumed as non - existing? Assuming that we have never in person seen a material God ever, never seen Jesus, never seen Allah or have never ever felt that Void that Buddha has stated that would mean that according to Science -  such ideas are merely ideas- not even worth contemplating. However a true scientist will always keep an open mind. Many laws of Physics have been based on an initial imagination and then have been found to be true- in theoretical physics.. That would mean that an open mind to SUBJECTIVE ENERGY CANNOT BE DENIED AS WE HAVE NO EXPLANATION OF DEATH AND THE DISCREPANCY IN CONDITIONS OF PEOPLE  BORN UNDER VARIED CONDITIONS IF GOD DOES NTO PLAY DICE , AND CONCEPT OF MIIND AS SUCH (DENIED BY SCIENTISTS SO FAR) . This is to state that there is a Universal Energy that cannot be denied - many physicists have come to this conclusion. The thing is how to define it? 

2)  Because I am a converted vedantist – I am going to use my so far collected knowledge of Vedanta to say that the message in PK is exactly what Vedanta says- that  ( consider it to be my connect to how I have perceieved Vedanta to be) 

a) the pursuit of worldly gains with its three formulations of wealth, power, and fame still not beyond the vagaries of time and limitations. If we carefully look at the pursuits of pleasure, security, and values, we realize that they are all limited and time-bound in the ultimate bidding

 b) that  our perceived happiness from objects/people/places changes over time. What really happens is that the acquired object of our desire temporarily relieves the agitation (in our mind and heart) that we were feeling due to its lack. When we get the object of our desire, we feel happy for a while, until our satiety is assailed again by another desire that takes the place of the previously fulfilled desire.  

C) that One who rejoices only in the Self, who is satisfied with the Self, who is content in the Self alone,—for such a person, there is nothing left to do. Such a person has nothing to gain from work done or left undone and no dependence on any object to serve any purpose. (Gita3.17-19)  . This is real essence of God/ Energy. 

I am sure that many verses in Buddhism and Jainism and Bible and Quran and in other holy books say exact this ( I would truly appreciate if mentioned in comments)  and yet people who are illiterate and the ones who cannot read or write if fall prey is understood- yet when engineers, doctors, scientists, mathematicians follow such misguided – myths then what can be said? PK wants you to know that the truth in INNER, it is not in the outer shams. The ones who can read and write and think- can they not make a different in the lives of one who can’t’ Can they not help their helpers- the ayahs and the gardeners and tell them what real God means?  Just a thought!

The question is that why do we fall prey? To some of us who are learned we still get into random practices. It is simply because of the fact that we do not see the impermanence of our activities and we need to read scriptures and not hear from a pandit without introspecting. One MUST INTROSPECT. 

Also- FEAR- the word used in PK is worth thinking about- Why do we say God fearing? Why do we have to fear him? And why would he punish us? Why is it that we we visit a temple on Tuesday we would get something in return if we recite Hanuman Chalisa? If the verses do not come from heart then there will  be no effect . Then should one stop going to temples or mosques? Well it depends on why do you go?  Bhagwan se darro? Or A place of silence as I want or be in quiet and peace?

And what is happening in the controversy of PK? Well exactly that point that he has raised. People saw the negative of having used Hinduism more than others- Thik hai – I agree to an that extent Hirani or whosever  did that – but the greater message of the fact that the best connect is LOVE has been lost. However, the biases,  the needs to go to temple to get this or that will not go – the greed and the insecurity and the fear is too great. Too big is this monster of fear  to change them. Yes they will pick the part where they would say –“ arre mere Bhagwan ko kuch Kaha????”  “maro and pitto!” Protest!

And also my dear friends WE DO NOT NEED TO PROTECT GOD. THE UNIVERSAL LAWS WILL NEVER DIE. THE MYTHS MAY DIE. THE BABAS MAY DIE OR RUN AWAY BUT THE LAWS OF VEDAS( Inner Science) and PHYSICS( External Science) CANNOT DIE.

To end it … PK is not bad. Worth a watch minus some aspects which may hurt - however they are social truths.

There would be no controversy if we know the answer to this question

Kasminnubhagavovijnatesarvamidamvijnatambhavati?.... Revered sir, what is it, by knowing which everything becomes known? The final message of Vedanta, then, is this: ―Know who you are. Know that you are Pure Consciousness and Absolute

Awareness, and be free!‖ To know oneself as absolute awareness is to be established in Self-knowledge. And to know oneself thusly is to realize one’s true Self. 

Once you know yourself- WHERE IS THE NEED TO GO TO ANY TEMPLE OR ANY MOSQUE OR ANY CHURCH? WHERE IS THE NEED TO FAST AND WHERE IS THE NEED TO REVER TO ANYONE OTHER THAN SELF?