Tata Sky and Kalp

I am a subscriber to the Tata Sky DTH. I have recently changed over to Supreme pack. Then came to ICC fever (fervour to some). I was desperate to get the best out of the service. So, when the promotional call came from the Tata sky marketing personnel, i was about to nod my head for everything and punch-in the numbers that the pre-recorded message urged me to !

However, my friends prevented me from being the impulsive purchaser. So, discussed with them, convinced them that i would watch the entire series with them and not simply waste the money... blah.. blah. So, i called the Tata sky helpline and asked them to add the sports 3-pack to my list of subscribed channels. The person listened to me very patiently and then told me.- " Sir we shall do what you ask. However, there is a small benefit you might lose if we do this. You are already in the supreme pack. If you wish, we can add five sports channels at a cost of 20/- (instead of the 3 pack which would cost me 65/-) and upgrade you to Supreme sports pack. These 5 channels cover the 3 sports channels that you have requested for adding".

Needless to say, i went with his choice. Service DOES exist in the service sector.

In a film (Geetanjali) the heroin states in an off the cuff fashion- "This plant will die, this cot will die these stars will die.. so, what is the big deal in me dying?" Sant kabir's words reflect in a more profound way.

Dying is the ONLY certainty. Yet we do not plan for it. In a more mundane fashion, When retirement is a certainty, we all begin to plan for our "after retirement" days. Now-a-days, i keep getting requests about what to do and where to invest etc... and also to calculate and tell them as to how much they would be getting and how and what they should do to enhance the same.

In the beginning i used to wonder how we are digressing. Then i realised that my thinking was on a different line and that it should be more on the lines that would lead me to within. For example, there are innumerable facets / emotions / feelings in the Universe. However, we get to experience ONLY some emotions / feelings / situations at a given point in time. The reason being, all that happens to us is because of some element in us that draws only those elements to us from out of so many elements in the universe. In that light when i began to view, realised that i have not been planning for what i have come here for!

So, it is time that i began to work for what i have set out to do in this place. GOD works in 'mysterious' ways that we may traverse the 'right path' to HIM.