Some voices-and answers

Someone read my blog yesterday (finally) and tried to give me a fitting reply. Each point in my blog was picked up, trashed and then left to cry in pain.

When I read my blog after coming from my office with the fading sense of hope that someone might read (one day) what I write, I was pleasantly surprised to find a lonely comment (hanging out of my blog like one hangs out of a STA bus in the morning while coming to the office).

I immediately remembered what the Forrest Gump's mama used to say, "life is like a chocolate, and you never know what you get inside". After seeing the blog, I felt the same way, "blog is like a chocolate, and you never know when you find a comment attached to it".

I felt like Goustave Courbet, suddenly being told that his paintings have fetched the highest prize in the Paris Salon, and that he does not need to paint 'Burial at Ornans' to prove that he is a Bohemian.

But! Alas! The comment killed all my enthusiasm; I was forced to reconsider my views on comments. And then I thanked my Hanuman Ji, for it was only because of him that I got a comment and a chance to reply to that comment. First, take a look at the comment itself ( written in such a beautiful way and with such great sense that I was forced to past the entire comment for my wider audience). The comment says:

thanks for a nearly perfect gastronomical analysis of me. i would only add one thing, 'she eats anything and everything' is not exactly correct. I beg to state that I detest any kind of health food ...and m more interested in non-edible or edible but non-efficacious things. Please do make a note!
Now for your answer to my question, some observations :
1. I fast on Tuesdays because it gives me an opportunity of not seeing something that I have been seeing for my entire life; the food. Next day, I am fresh to eating.
Going by the same logic, can you perhaps, not breathe one particular day of the week? so that the next day fresh air seems fresher??
2. I fast because it cleanses my body of all the toxins that keep accumulating for all the week.
....what is the point, if after a one-day break you go back to the toxin-intake routine?
3. I fast because I believe in the strength of hanuman ji. He is the only god that could give us the strength to fight against the odds that we face in our life. And Tuesday is his day.
But y exactly do you think hanumanji would give you more strength if you refrain from eating? has he categorically stated such a condition of his benevolence anywhere?
4. I fast because it saves food.
but i am sure u make up for it rest of the days of the week. y not diet? for greater effect?
5. I fast because it gives me the opportunity to understand the pain of hunger, the pain of not eating.
give me a break dear..to just said u fast to please hanumanji. that is quite a selfish reason. dont try to pass it off as empathy or sympathy...
and old, cliched and boring but they are true and written from the heart; not from the stomach. stomach? or mind with dwindling grey matter?????

Thanks for such wonderful comments. Now I will try to reply all your points, though I know that I would be difficult matching you style and substance. So I will start from the bottom. Only then you can sense the Zenith of victory.

1. Comment 1: stomach? or mind with dwindling grey matter?????
Answer 1.: I always believe that a writer writes from his/her heart, not from his/her mind. Because he knows that mind has gray matter that dwindles. But heart is made of a unique muscle tissue (cardiac) that has nothing to worry about dwindling. More importantly, it feels. And feeling is the most important factor that forces you to write.
Why not stomach? Because, when it is empty, it remains in the influence of Saiitan.

2. Comment 2: give me a break dear..to just said u fast to please hanumanji. that is quite a selfish reason. dont try to pass it off as empathy or sympathy...
Answer 2.: Some consequences are unintentional, but they happen. Remember, trains were introduced in India to exploit the hinterlands of our country, but unintentionally they became one of the factors to unite India. Mine is also unintentional, but it happens, and I can't help it.

3. Comment 3: But y exactly do you think hanumanji would give you more strength if you refrain from eating? has he categorically stated such a condition of his benevolence anywhere?
Answer 3.: Ramanuja said, 'Bhakti is all about unconditional love between a bhakt and his bhagwan'. I truly believe this. Why should I wait for Hanuman Ji to come and tell me to Fast. I do it to show my unintentional love towards him. He in return, which I am presuming, have been giving me his unconditional blessings.

4. Comment 4: ....what is the point, if after a one-day break you go back to the toxin-intake routine?
Answer 4.: An action is the reaction of the totality of circumstances. You should have toxins in your body to get rid of that. Without toxins in my body, my totality of circumstances would not be complete. And my fasting would become somewhat redundant.

5. Comment 5: Going by the same logic, can you perhaps, not breathe one particular day of the week? so that the next day fresh air seems fresher??
Answer 5.: Despite your noble intentions of killing me, I still have an answer to you comment. I want to take a day off from something that I can see. I can see food, and that tempts me. But I don't see air, so I don't have any temptation for it. I am not Benjamin Franklin who believed in taking fresh air bath. I am satisfied from the amount of air that has been given to me by my Hanuman Ji.

6. Comment 6: thanks for a nearly perfect gastronomical analysis of me. i would only add one thing, 'she eats anything and everything' is not exactly correct. I beg to state that I detest any kind of health food ...and m more interested in non-edible or edible but non-efficacious things. Please do make a note!
Answer 6.: You are too good a person to be analyzed solely on the basis of what you eat and what not (it may or may not be efficacious). You are very right in detesting health foods. God has given you enough health; anything more would be ............ Well it would force you to fast.

Well, keep eating everything (non-edible or edible). It makes you unique. It's better to be unique than to be lost in the crowd and then struggling to find one's identity.

Cheers
Kundan