Through the haze of the
twilight walked in Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s Little Prince. He was still the same old Little Prince
(LP). That’s why he appeared in the
twilight. When they grow up they become
princes or princesses of darkness.
“The Universe is a crazy
place,” said LP when I asked what he had learnt after so many years of
wandering among the stars and meteors.
Just imagine your own situation, he said. Right now you are moving at about a speed of
1500 km per hour.
“You mean the speed of the
rotation of the earth?” I ventured to ask.
It is dangerous to ask questions to enlightened people. You never know how they will take your
questions. They live in a different universe altogether.
Precisely, he said. If the earth is rotating at a speed of about
1500 km per hour on its axis, you are moving at that speed, aren’t you?
“The earth is also
revolving around the Sun at about 30 km per second,” I said.
Indeed, he consented
immediately. So you are spinning at
about half a kilometre per second and rushing in the space at about 30 km per
second.
He had converted 1500 km
per hour into km per second, I understood.
Then there are your
airplanes and maglev trains and what not, said LP. So much rush, so much rush. He shook his head as if he didn’t like all
that rush.
“Rush is the law of the
universe, it seems,” I ventured again.
That’s why, I said, it’s a
crazy system.
The madness is perhaps its
beauty too, he went on. There’s a method
to that madness.
“Yup. Our scientists have found out the formulas of
those methods.” I wanted to add that the
formulas make the system very sane. Not
crazy.
Well, you never know when
a shooting star will appear from nowhere, said LP. I have had to dodge quite a lot of craziness
during my cosmic wanderings.
“Maybe even the shooting
stars follow some formulas,” I suggested.
“Our scientists...”
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What is essential remains
beyond the formulas and rules, said LP cutting me short. What is essential reveals itself only to the
heart.
“But the heart is crazier
than the universe,” I blurted out. Every terrorist is a lover at heart, I
thought. Every hater is. Every fanatic
is.
The heart is the root that
keeps you from being tossed about in this crazy universe. LP peered into my eyes as if to check whether
I had a heart. Your religious people
haven’t discovered the heart, he said, they only discovered gods.
Beautiful presentation and loved the last line a lot...that's actually happening all over the world.
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DeleteYes, they have discovered only gods, their gods - his god, and her god and they are all antagonistic to all the other gods or others' gods.....there is no heart in the matter - absolutely no heart - just blindness.....
ReplyDeleteAnd blind beliefs, blind hate, blind worship!
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