Sometimes you feel that everybody around you is happy because you yourself feel the happiest u have ever been. It’s ironic that that feeling comes and goes and changes something inside you. That’s the feeling of nirvana. Nirvana is a funny word (a funny band too). Different people understand nirvana differently. I have seen people claiming to be nirvanised at certain times. A man drunk claiming to be an incarnation of Buddha, a stoned bastard listening to zeppelin soaked in the illusion of finding the ultimate happiness, the saints on TV channels assuring us that they know how being in nirvana feels like and how we can attain it too.
Is nirvana achievable? Can we one day be nirvanised? But, first of all, what is this nirvana?
The dictionary defines nirvana as being in the state of having achieved wisdom, compassion and extinction from all attachments. If nirvana is a funny word, wisdom is the funnier and absurd. A daily meeting with Baba Ramdev in early mornings and you are guaranteed the sweets of wisdom. Well, I think this is the idea behind the success of Ramdev or I should say Baba Ramdev brand. I visited Baba’s facility in Hardwar sometime back (not for wisdom, of course). But, just to have a look. It was a big facility, more of a hotel resort with plush gardens and a big medical canteen selling churans, goliis and other recipes.
What the hell?? Nirvana or no nirvana, I am allergic to churan and gollis.
If we look around, we would definitely find people like these claiming their associations with nirvana. The beauty of the nature amazes me, I listen to music, I sure have an eye for woman. We all are happy, ethical, non – violent, cool people. Why we are not injected with nirvana then??
How can we achieve nirvana? Well, believing in sadhus and tantriks is sure not one of them nor is the cigarette you smolder or the beer u waste!!
But I think this is the way it goes, we all are different and so are our beliefs. Somebody finds nirvana in being completely wasted in booze (doing and not thinking), some finds it in trance blowing their minds off with smoke rising in the sky. Some man in Texas may find nirvana road tripping drinking a 6 pack along the way. Some guy in Delhi may feel nirvana when his love says to him “I do”, some dude listening to the Megadeath concert might be nirvanised.
