Wednesday, November 27, 2013

What is the point?


In Vrindavan I spotted an old destitute woman bent double due to a spinal deformity. This tatterdemalion was supporting herself with a stick, hobbling along the garbage strewn pavement dodging stray dogs.


Why does God allow such a travesty of humanity to come into existence? What lies in her past ‘karma’ that she has to suffer in such a manner? 

Makes one wonder about the pointlessnes, especially on seeing fat people, ostensibly on a pilgrimage from Delhi, smug in their imagined piety and snug in their luxury cars, tramping about the same streets of Vrindavan as the shivering bundle of skin and bones I had seen earlier.

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