ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <META content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <P> <TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=1> <TR> <TD width="100%"> <P align=center>&nbsp;</P> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <font face="Bangle" size="4"><b><u><span style="color: red">The Good Bad and Ugly</span></u></b></font></p> <P align=center>&nbsp;</P></TD></TR></TABLE></P> <TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=1 border=1 style="WIDTH: 100%; HEIGHT: 257px"> <TR> <TD width="126"> <P> <TABLE id=TABLE1 cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=1 width="126" border=0 style="WIDTH: 126px; HEIGHT: 138px"> <TR> <TD> <P><font face="ParkAvenue BT"><A href="Index.HTM"><font color="#008080" size="5">Prologue</font></A></font></P> <P>&nbsp;</P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <P><font face="ParkAvenue BT"><A href="monologue.htm"><font color="#FF00FF" size="5">Monologue</font></A></font></P> <P>&nbsp;</P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD><font face="ParkAvenue BT"><A href="epilogue.htm"><font color="#800000" size="5">Epilogue</font></A></font><p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</TD></TR> <TR> <TD>&nbsp;<p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</TD></TR></TABLE></P> </TD> <td width="735" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Verdana">&nbsp;</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> <span style="color:fuchsia">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="Arial Narrow" size="4">&nbsp;</font><font size="4" face="Arial Unicode MS">When I was studying in GEC, Tcr, for graduation, one of my nicknames was Clint Eastwood. When it came to the Post Graduation in Business Management from Scms, Cochin another set of friends preferred another nickname Elvis Krishnan. Same person but different perceptions by different people. Some of us recently had a good discussion plus some fierce battle on <a href="conceptsofathmavidya.htm"> Karma or action.</a> What is right action and what is wrong action? Whether the Subtle Intention and Attitude or the Gross Action and Defined Results matter more? Is there anything beyond these to pursue for. As usual the discussions ended up at square one with everybody gaining a point or two to strengthen their own arguments and view points. </font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> <font size="4" face="Arial Unicode MS" color="#FF00FF">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After hearing to this </font><span style="color:fuchsia"> <font size="4" face="Arial Unicode MS">battle of thoughts when I started before my compu to write something on this, my Goddess gave me this title - The Good Bad and Ugly  the title of the famous Clint Eastwood starred film. &nbsp;</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> <span style="color:fuchsia"><font face="Arial Unicode MS" size="4"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The title attracted me very much, cause at some point of time in life we have all gone through some situations wherein we have become doubtful what to do and what not to do. </span><font color="#800000">We always try to judge things by constantly analyzing what is right and what is wrong. Which action gives us good results and which one does not? With our very limited knowledge or facts and figures we judge things and its results and just like a blind man s aim and throw at the Mango Tree we get into action.</font><span style="color:fuchsia"> </span> <font color="#800000">Once a mango happens to fall we start of our boastings to inflate our own ego balloon to show that how great am I and how correctly I took my decisions to get that done etc etc.</font><span style="color:fuchsia"> This continues till we miss the next try at the Mango? All these inflated ego balloon of I (for eg. I am like this, I am like that, My policy is this, I do only like that) get just busted immediately leaving us again into doubts what to do and what not to do and into the never ending paradox of right and wrong. I am also no exception to this. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in"> <font face="Arial Unicode MS" size="4"><font color="#800000">I asked myself, </font> <span style="color:fuchsia"><a href="manojscms.htm"><font color="#800000"> Who are we to ascertain who and what is good, bad or ugly, right or wrong .</font></a></span><font color="#800000"> Supporting it, an incident depicted by Swami Vivekananda from his life came to my mind from somewhere. During his Gujarath visit he went to the famous Temple there, which was looted by Gasni merely with some 50 </font> <span style="color:fuchsia"> <a href="Message%20from%20Aniyan%20Menon.htm"><font color="#800000">(corrected to less than 10 as per the opinion of Sri. Aniyan Menon)</font></a><font color="#800000"> looters with some ordinary swords and horses. According to Swamiji s estimate, there were more than 5000 people who earned their livelihood directly from the Temple. Several times of that were indirectly earning livelihood because of the Temple. What astonished Swamiji was the fact, that there wasn&#39;t much resistance against Gasni to protect the Temple. Then Swamiji thought to himself intensely,  Had I been there at that time I would have fought till my last blood to protect the Deity and the Lord s Temple. &nbsp;</font></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in"> <span style="color:#800000"><font face="Arial Unicode MS" size="4">Then, suddenly a Voice came and struck his ears from Nowhere,  Am I protecting you? Or are you protecting Me........????? &nbsp; &nbsp;</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> <span style="color:fuchsia"><font face="Arial Unicode MS" size="4"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There are three ways by which we do Karma  the Thought, Word and Deed or Physical Action. The Thought is the subtlest form and the Physical Action is the Gross Form. My Goddess told me that the Physical Action and Words should be oriented towards purification of Thoughts and let the Purified Thoughts sublime us into Divine Bliss. &nbsp;</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> <span style="color:fuchsia"><font face="Arial Unicode MS" size="4"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Then a question rose in my heart,  What s meant by the action, Purification? The answer slowly Poured in. Purity means Divinity. Purifying means to travel from I to We. </font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> <font face="Arial Unicode MS" size="4" color="#FF00FF">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font> <span style="color:fuchsia"><font face="Arial Unicode MS" size="4"> &nbsp;It is to know that you are dwelling in everybody whereby the boundaries of individual ego just sublimes like passing clouds. </font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> <font face="Arial Unicode MS" size="4" color="#FF00FF">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font> <span style="color:fuchsia"><font face="Arial Unicode MS" size="4"> That feeling of &nbsp;Float, Current, Energy or Bliss just creep in with a sense of fulfillment. </font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> <font face="Arial Unicode MS" size="4" color="#FF00FF">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font> <span style="color:fuchsia"><font face="Arial Unicode MS" size="4"> To try achieving that state in which you start feeling that you and everything in the Universe are all part of that Divine Bliss with help of Heartfelt Genuine Love is the Act of Purification. </font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> <font face="Arial Unicode MS" size="4" color="#FF00FF">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font><span style="color: fuchsia"> <font size="4" face="Arial Unicode MS">My mind again got into action; it asked how I should try to reach there. The answer showered in very soothingly from my Goddess, &quot;Oh, dear I shall remind you this as many times you may need; it is by orienting your work, whatever it may be, towards Me, by the Continuous Contemplation and Intensive Desire after the Cosmic Consciousness or the Divine Bliss.&quot; </font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"> <span style="font-family:Verdana">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><font face="Verdana"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <u> <a href="trustwithathmavidya.htm">Go Back to  Tryst With Athmavidya Page</a></u></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="justify">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Verdana">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></span></p> </td></TR> <TR> <TD width="126"> &nbsp;</TD> <td width="735" valign="top"> &nbsp;</td></TR> </TABLE> <font face="Verdana">&nbsp;</font></BODY></HTML>