AAJ HOLIDAY HAI... SOCHA, KYA KARUN?
“God writes
the Gospel not in the Bible alone,
but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.”
but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.”
Today
was a public holiday, here in Maharashtra, on account of Maha Shivaratri. But,
I was working. Suraj, my 11 th standard student, had turned up (as usual!)
without doing his homework… He put the blame on Lord Shiva…
“Sir, I was
awake the whole night along with my family, at our temple,” Suraj justified, “How
could I complete my homework?”
“Wow, a holy
excuse!” I said sarcastically, “Olagina guttu, Shivane Bhalla.”
“What is that
supposed to be?” Suraj was clueless about my this saying in Kannada …
“It’s supposed
to be this,” I explained, “God alone knows the inside secret… the ‘real story’
in your case.”
“Shiva knows the
real story, Sir,” Suraj justified, “I was awake the whole night in His temple…
It’s not a holy excuse as you think.”
“You had, at
your disposal, the entire day and night, the day before yesterday,” I
countered, “was it not enough to complete a homework that would take hardly
thirty minutes?”
I didn’t wait
for my student’s response… I said, “God helps only who help themselves,” and
closed the chapter!
When
I was in college, there was this Konkani play by the name ‘Dev Dita’… God
Gives…
Looking at those
roadside posters of this play, my friend Joe, known for his funny bone, cracked
this joke, one day…
In a
local liquor joint, a drunkard comes to another drunkard’s table and pleads, “Maka
ek sixty di, tuka dev ditholo.”
Translated
from Konkani, it means, “Give me a sixty M.L (medium-size peg)… For you, Dev (God)
will give.”
Just
then, another drunkard, who was listening to this dialogue, comes up to this table,
and makes it very clear, angrily, to both of them: “Dev dina… Dev tachya
sixty che maatr dita.”… “Dev won’t give… Dev will give only for his sixty!”
It’s okay
if you do not understand Kannada or Konkani… Enough if you understand this much
This angry drunkard’s name was Dev… and, by no means, he would pay for someone
else’s peg… He will pay only for his ‘sixty’!
Now, jokes
aside, even God – Dev – will say the same thing to us: “Don’t put it on me, you
drunkards!”
The Suraj
episode took place in the morning. In the afternoon, an ex-student of mine,
Satnam, called me up, “Sir are you in the office, today?” When I said, “Yes,” he enquired
if he could come over for a few minutes…
In next few
minutes, Satnam landed in my office. He hadn’t met me for quite some time… We
spent some forty minutes just talking… There was no specific reason or a topic…
We just talked… Then, he reminded me of a video I had shared with him some time
back… Apparently, he hadn’t watched that video… “I watched it last night, Sir. Aaj
holiday hai… socha kya karun?… So, just came to see you.”
What is the connection between these two episodes on Maha Shivaratri day?
God alone knows… Shiva
ne Bhalla!
GERALD D’CUNHA
Pic.: Chetna Shetty
Video: Source Unknown
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