Humour
Free Thyself From The Cycle of Maya ... and Junk Mail!
Contributed by BISWADEEP BOSE
BHAGVAD GITA - ADHYAAY 19
Arjun: Hey Vasudev, how can I do
the most heinous and unpardonable act of forwarding junk mail that I receive, to
my friends, relatives and revered elders?
Krishna: Paarth,
at this moment, none of them is your friend or foe, relative or in-law, young or
old and good or evil. You have no escape from following your Net-Dharma. Make
haste to log on and send off the junk mail to one and all. That is the only
Karma expected of you and Dharma you must
follow.
Arjun: Hey Murari! Do not implore me to do
something that pricks my conscience and stirs my soul.
Krishna: O
Kunti-Putra, you are caught in the vicious circle of the Maya. In this material
world, you are committed to no one except to yourself, your Dharma and your
mouse. Junk mails have existed for over the last 25 years and will remain long
after you are gone. Rise above the Maya and perform your bounden
duty.
Arjun: Lord Krishna, pray and enlighten me on
how junk mail is related to the Maya.
Krishna: Vatsa,
junk mail is the 6th element in the universe - Aap, Vaayu, Jull, Agni,
Aakaash and Junk Mail. It is at the same time animate and inanimate,
living and dead beat. It overloads the system and fills up the hard disk. But it
serves one great purpose. It leads people to believe that they are filling their
time in an intellectual pursuit by reading and reforwarding junk mail. It gives
them a sense of achievement without investing their intellect and efforts. Like
the Atmaa(n) that leaves one's physical body and moves on to another, the junk mail
moves from system to system and never gets deleted or
dies.
Arjun: Great Giridhaari, kindly tell me what
the true attributes of junk mail are.
Krishna: Neither
fire can burn it, nor air can evaporate it. Neither can it be conquered nor can
it be defeated. Junk mail is omnipresent and immortal like your noble and
eternal soul. Unlike an arrow shot from your bow, many a time the junk mail
forwarded by you, will even return to you safely after some months or even
years, allowing you to re-re-forward it to the same
people.
Arjun: Great Saarathi, my salutations
to you. You have opened my eyes to the cult of junk mail. I was lost in the Maya
and have been reading all the junk mail that I keep receiving and doing no other
Karma. Now on, I will just press the "Forward" button without reading any of it
and send it to all and sundry, friends and foes, relatives and in-laws, young
and old. That will surely bring them to their knees in this epochal battle of
Good against Evil, in the Kurukshetra.
Krishna: Arjuna, victory or defeat is not in your hands. Do not ponder over the fruits of your labour. Just keep forwarding junk mail and make one and all go bananas reading it and you will have done your supreme duty. Tathastu.
Thus Spoke Lord Krishna ...
November 11, 2010
Conversation about this article
1: Sangat Singh (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), November 11, 2010, 5:34 PM.
If Krishna, the dashing blue-skinned super hero who drove women wild and demons into despair, endorses the cult of junk mail - just do it with the fervor of 'Hare Krishna Hare Rama' movement. Do your duty and forward to the unbeliever nerds. Ask them to join in the sacred service and within 10 seconds of receiving it, spread the gospel of truth in the name of 'Krishna Junk Service' and learn mythology painlessly.