This time while being driven home, after being picked up by the trustworthy family driver, I got a chance to witness something which was thought provoking enough to make me write this post.
Now this fellow is an energetic and colorful character with an immense liking for breaking out into impromptu karaoke to his favourite songs which the radio helpfully supplies him in plenty. Apart from being musical, the other most important thing in life seemed to be faith or God or religion or a combination of some sort. I reached this conclusion because I'd observed on earlier trips that no matter how heavy the traffic, no matter how engrossed he would be in singing, no matter if a herd of cows suddenly dropped onto the road in front of him but if he were to spot a temple on the road he would pay his due respects appropriately. A short prayer muttered, a quick little ritual touching of the forehead and whatever else struck his fancy.
He would do this for every temple he would spot - small, big, in the middle of a road, off in the distance. No shrine was too small to escape his purview and I thought that was very commendable and always used to admire his faith if not identify with it.
But that's not the reason I'm writing this. It's the realization that dawned on me about halfway during the trip that's making me write. I don't know why I had missed it before but I soon realized that not only was he paying his respect at every passing temple but also, with the kind of enlightenment the best of us don't have, he was doing the same for every mosque that we passed too. I was totally in awe of him after that! I mean if you've got to have faith then this is the best kind. Clearly he was a religious fellow, so he figured instead of wasting time, like the rest of most of us half-brianed idiots, about which God was better/right/stronger/existing-at-all, he'd show them! While they were doing themselves no earthly good by pitching one faith against the other, he'd just quietly notch up a whole bunch of brownie points with the whole pantheon, while laughing internally at their silliness.
I have to say I can find no possible logic against his.
