boman.. beauman ...superman...

boman

religion was called the opium of the masses by marx..
a panacea for all ills it has become an easy answer to what requires serious consideration, a way of explaining what defies logic..

now have you ever wondered how children get drawn in the net..

a few weeks back as we walked passed a statue of some leader erected high on a pedestal, mr p tugged at my kurta and pointing towards the statue kept saying 'boman' boman' and then folding his hands while he urged me to do the same.. slightly irritated I complied just to ensure that stubborn mr p would agree to move on..

it is much later that I unraveled the mystery of the word 'boman'.. well it was 'bhagavan' or god! to this little fellow anything that was big, and made of inert material was a bhagavan and had to be shown respect...

one can wonder how mr p who is an extremely sensitive child perceives this entity: something big, something to be scared off, to be wondered at.. the first message that has been given to him is one of diffidence. Does his mother get angry if the little fellow does not fold his hands?

all will depend on how the lessons proceed... but that is how the first seeds are sown.. at present anything big is 'boman'.. with time it will acquire qualities and subtler definitions, and then differences of 'boman' will appear, your boman and their boman...

oh how is wish that boman remains boman or at best beauMan - how different the world would be...