Have you ever found something so beautiful, so unique that you want to stand on roof tops and yell it out and tell the world to stop its lazy slumber and wake up to this amazing thing that has the potential of changing your life or touching you in a way you have never been touched before. I discovered it, I was touched and since then cant stop thinking about it. So what is this amazing thing ? It’s a movie called Banaras.
Have I gone mad, delusional seeing things that are not their? All I can say is what you see in it depends on YOU. You can see it as a clichéd movie with a bad music score, full of faults or you can see it as a portrayal of a beautiful spiritual world.
Great people say, this is the time of HEALING. They say that more and more people are becoming AWARE of their spiritual selves. They say today’s generation is closer to this awareness than any generation has been before. They say the proof of this can be seen in the mass movement towards spirituality, spiritual teachers, yoga, reiki and spiritual books.
Truly this is the time of QUEST, AWARNESS and HEALING.
I see it in the mass awarness spread by books of Dr. Brian Weiss.
I see it in the quest for knowledge started by Dan Brown’s book( a book that has started people on a journey(quest) to rediscover God).
I see it in healing that brought about reopening of the Jessica lal’s murder case.
I see it in the minorities coming out to protest the blasts in Banaras.
I see it in a movie called Crash.
I see it in a movie called Banaras.
So what is this movie that got me blogging.Well it’s a story…………
It’s the story of human’s spiritual experience on earth or the story of spirit’s human existence on earth.
It’s the story of a man of a lower caste, people fear to be touched by him, its impossible to think of him as a teacher for their children ,the very thought of his marriage to an upper caste girl is sacrilege. Yet the holy river and God don’t make that distinction and bless him with eternal-knowledge.
It’s the story of a man who gets “seeked-out” by God , even before he starts to “seek” for God. It’s the story of a man who finds God’s spiritual love at the site of Sarnath and human love of a girl against the backdrop of Banaras. It’s the story of a man who cries when he knows he has to go away from his beloved, because she has to continue her journey of human existence, has to live through the deceit of humans and evolve /progress from a university student with a golden voice to a spiritual teacher and then find in her heart to forgive those people who caused her pain.
It’s the story of a girl, a modern girl, who studies science at the university and prays at the Ghats of Banaras. Who finds peace in the ruins of Sarnath. Who questions about the “THING” that made a King renounce his kingdom. Who finds her soulmate in a lower caste man and through him finds that “Thing” for which spirits wander on this earth and take birth repeatedly.
It’s the story of the SPIRITUAL city of banaras ,the seat of Shiva, of Sarasvati, the site of Sarnath where Buddha gave his first preaching, where Tulsidas wrote Ramayan, where people from all over India and the world come to die so that Shiva may take their souls.
It’s the story of the HUMAN city of Banaras; where thugs and fake holy men roam on the ghats and con people of money, where people wear big tillak and talk of what is religiously wrong and right and at the same time carry out illegal activities like smuggling ,where people find it inappropriate to be touched by a lower caste man ,and the same higher castes wont even stop at murder to stop a high caste girl marrying a lower caste boy(because an untouchables touch to them is more polluting that the sin of murder).
It’s the story of the SPITITUAL-HUMAN city of Banaras; where human beings may seek and find spirituality on the roads ,on the ghats,in the dark corner of a temple,or in the ruins of Sarnath. It’s the story of a city where Soham cannot die but the physical (human) exsistence of a girl limits her from seeing him. Where a girl finds it in her heart to forgive another human, the murder of her beloved.
Yes its BANARAS : A MYSTIC LOVE STORY.
Maybe the realities of life will catch up with me and this Euphoria will die down. But I believe what I have found is not a pseudo spirituality but Knowledge. Euphoria may come down but when you brush away the dust of time and harsh realities of life, Knowledge still remains Knowledge.
And people are saying that it is the time for quest, awareness and healing…..
