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saidevo
07 August 2006, 09:40 AM
As I get up in the morning and look out of the window,
I am reminded of the Microsoft Windows operating system
of my computer.

As I sit at the dining table for my early morning cup of
coffee, I am reminded of Sun Microsystem's Java coffee cup.

If only I were reminded of Lord Krishna in the same way,
looking at things, with something of a Bharathi in me,
I could have been a far better person!

Have we ever stopped for a moment to think how many icons
we meet in our daily life? Virtual hieroglyphics haunt me,
taunt me, and control me like a friend, philospher and guide.

Perhaps the most popular icons that every citizen of the world
will understand, are the male-female figures on a toilet wall!

It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words.
Perhaps an icon is worth a thousand pictures.

Icons everywhere! In petrol bunks, travel points like airports,
railway stations, bus shelters; shops, offices, hospitals;
traffic signs on the roadside; and the emoticons in my email!

Icons forcefully change the way I walk, talk, write and think.
The slew of technology that has permeated my daily life,
is gradually replacing the language, leading me slowly back to
the days of the hieroglyphics.

Idols are the icons of Godhood in Hinduism. Installed everywhere
in the Hindu world like the modern-day icons, they remind a Hindu
of his/her daily dharma.

When I need a plethora of icons for my daily life, is it not
sheer arrogance on my part to frown upon the people who use idols?

satay
11 August 2006, 03:10 PM
When I need a plethora of icons for my daily life, is it not
sheer arrogance on my part to frown upon the people who use idols?

Yes it is probably arrogance but then again it could be ignorance...as some say that GOD created us in 'his' image so he himself is the biggest idoltar!!

saidevo
11 August 2006, 11:28 PM
Yes it is probably arrogance but then again it could be ignorance...as some say that GOD created us in 'his' image so he himself is the biggest idoltar!!

Exactly. It is ignorance and the absence of willingness to learn from others that makes me arrogant and scoff at the idols of Hinduism, even though I pretty well know that my religion says that God made me after his image or I worship a stone image as the ultimate goal of Alla darshan in Mecca.

satay
12 August 2006, 12:14 PM
even though I pretty well know that my religion says that God made me after his image or I worship a stone image as the ultimate goal of Alla darshan in Mecca.

or little idols of jesus like the ones sitting in our home or the cross that my christian friends wear or sometimes hang in the car etc. etc.