I remember playing this communication game in school days where children are asked to sit in a circle and then asked to pass on the word that was prompted to them by the first person. In most cases the word would lose its correct pronunciation, & also the meaning when it passes on to the last person. That is true with words and also with silence. Many a time even mere silence is interpreted or misinterpreted in million different ways.
I personally don’t blog to create a community of my own or to bring page views to my site or to ask my readers to give me business through Google ads. If that was the reason, I would have linked and got linked from 100s of other bloggers who blog regularly, and have some 100 links showcased from their site. In fact I blog for a selfish reason – for my own spiritual growth, and also to guide very few people who are lost in the material world and don’t know how to seek spiritual growth. And how can blogging lead to spiritual growth – will blog about that topic someday later.
I can very well make a dumb bull to drive a car. The only problem would be it would need some extra time and extra energy from my end. But if I spend the same time and same energy to teach few 1000 human beings to drive a car – I can save on time, and also recruit them as cab drivers in the Gulf countries. (Kindly don’t take the literal meaning of this example, I don’t run a car driving school).
A couple of days back I had blogged about the miracle that happened in my life, where in I found few hundreds in a post cover that was sent to me, which helped me at the last moment to pay the auto guy. I had mentioned in the blog that when I landed in Chennai, I didn’t have a single penny in my pocket. And I got a very caring comment from one my well wishers that - was my condition so bad? That is how things are misinterpreted very easily. Bill Gates is a multi millionaire, but he doesn’t carry truck loads of money when he moves around. At any given point I am sure, he has few credit cards and just few dollars in his wallet - though his worth is few millions as of today. Being penniless at a given point doesn’t mean you are bankrupt. In fact that day I had spent Rs 1000 in the train itself buying CDs, toys and books and had some 10 k in my ICICI account.
Someone buzzed me on Yahoo Messenger to say, I was wrong about Ayurveda. It seems I had typed that Ayurveda doesn’t have a cure for diabetes, which I never did. That reader in fact read one of the comments posted by some reader on my blog, and started arguing with me. Not that I am bad at arguing. I have won most of my arguments in life – right from school days to present day. But these days I keep myself away from arguments for the simple reason that – I don’t want to educate ignorant people for free. I charge Rs 300 per 15 minutes for arguments alone. Or else the best thing I do is say– YOU WIN - it cuts off arguments completely without my energy getting wasted!
With few incidents happening I have to take a decision - from now on my blog site will be one of the very few websites that doesn’t allow readers to post their views or comments on my site. Not that I am closing myself to others views, but just to help ignorant people not to be misguided by ignorant commenter. You can always send your views to my mail ID, or chat with me on yahoo messenger – but remember if it is arguments you need to pay me first!