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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

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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.

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