Sunday, April 29, 2007

exodus 19: truly cinematic

exodus 19 is truly cinamatic.............i just loved it .....too good!!
this old testament god is always acting upon some unspecified reasons. i think old tstament is more appealing to Inidan mentality rather than new testament.

i just love exodus 19 for its cinematic experience!!

could be the last monologue

i dont understand which of Your revelation i am not able to grasp. You make us fear, You make us obey, You send afflictions upon those who are inefficient to understand You and you hardenes the hearts of others so they will afflict us and in the end we may understand You, but i dont know, rather i feel that some of the aspect of your perfection i am missing.
where am i to go? its again near you i have to come again and again to unerstand you! my people gathered near Sinai mountain to see You and You told Moses to tell the people not to come too close to the mountain lest they may loose their lives. Moses saw You from the mountain or upon the mountain i dont know. You were on that mountain or from the mountain there was a way to see you, i dont know, i dont understand! but if You were upon that mountain but..... i think mountain is best seen in its completeness, in perfection....... when one is away from the mountain.
i dont understand which of the aspect of Your completeness i am not able to see! oh! i bessech redeem me from this affliction ...........which was the song my people sung when you brought them out of Egyptian's affliction?
they sung “You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty waters. Who is like You among the gods, O LORD? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, Awesome in praises, working wonders? You stretched out Your right hand, The earth swallowed them. You in you mercy has led the people whom You have redeemed; In Your strength You have guided them........... to........... Your............... holy habitation................You in your mercy???!!has led the people?? in Your mercy? mercy...............that is in your loving kindness has led my people and also guided them.....
Your Mercy..............YOUR LOVING KINDNESS!!!
IS THIS THE ASPECT I AM MISSING? besides being majestic and awesome
YOU, THE LORD IS ALSO LOVE.........?!!!.................................

YES THE LORD IS ALSO LOVE!

Friday, April 27, 2007

monologue 2

40 days i am walking on this worm sand..............40 days! how my people would have survived 40 yeras in the wilderness? what was that survival? left an egypt with an aim of reaching to the place which they had not seen! just beleiving in the word of moses! why ........why did they leave egypt? they should have left but not just upon the word of moses! there should have had something else upon which they should have leaft egypt! not with moses as a leader but everyone being a moses.
if it would have had happened in the present would have had been somthing else.......no i dont want manna i want answers to my questions. oh god i want my answers!

manna................mushrooms!!!

manna can be mushrooms? the word menu and manna have any relation?
for 40 years god provided manna? 40 years!!!!!! the counting is quite suspicious from the genesis only. but even if i reduce 40 years to 4 years the period os quite long. and even if this "time" mystery is solved the "manna" mystery remains almost untouched!

i in this land also have "amrut" or "somrasa" which has resemblance to manna at conceptual level! but that doesnt even solve the mystery!

but what is the mystery abt? these people left egypt and they survived in the wilderness, thats the fact thats the truth. so even if at some time the mystery is solved what will happen? what would happen if it was proved that manna was provided by god? so my journey is not towards manna but towards god and i want to prove him through manna?!

Come to me no more moses!!!!

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Monologue 1

what a day it is?!
A day when my people decided to leave the Egypt. A day we call Passover. A day when the firstborn of those were killed who refused to obey God.
That day and this day! when I, the firstborn of my family is set about to kill himself. the first one and the only one!
Am I really going to have this journey of suicide! is it necessary to walk on this path or these people have forced me to walk on this path? I dont understand them but I love them!
i think its absolutely fine to understand oneself. In these 33 years I have tried enough to understand myself. the journey is endless. i must stop it! lets spill this blood and conclude the whole matter!!! lets passover! let the firstborn be killed and let God fulfill his wish!

Friday, April 20, 2007

from community to communion

Exodus - written by Moses.
Moses killed Egyptian and fled.
Pharoe orderes midwives of the era to kill the sons of Israel. Moses is saved and brought up in an Egyptian family and that too a royal family.
he was a product of Nile, an orphan but got smoothly absorbed in Egyptian family. nobody questioned who he was?


Wahtever, Moses was brought up away from his community for a long time......'the quest for roots' made him to create a catalogue of his community. A community which reached to communion in New Testament

from community to communion - thats the story of bible

Monday, April 16, 2007

Shephards - Dhangar

Before entering Egypt on Joseph's request, Joseph told Jacobe and his family not to disclose their identity of being shepherd. He informed him Egyptians hate shepherds. .....................'lord is my shepherd'................Christ is symbolized as a lamb.............a parable of shepherd told by Christ.

All these imagery, all these contexts, symbols and the text enter in a country viz. India where a community viz. Dhangar already exists with its different texture and culture! Somewhere in maharashtra dhangars are called kurmars. they observe or used to observe more casteism than others.
What exactly would have happened with the psyche of Indians while accepting this new middle east context?

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Hebrew - tower of babel

Hebrew is amongst afro-asiatic language family. Today Hebrew is spoken by 7 million people and afro-asiatic languages speakers are over 300 million (i.e. 3crore).
can there be any nexus between the story of tower of babel and afro-asiatic language family?

Teraphim

While leaving Laban's house Jacobe's wife Rachael stole Laban's idols. In few versions it's said that they were God's images and in few versions they have been termed as Teraphim. Who were these Teraphims? and How they got vanished?

Thursday, April 5, 2007

Adam and Eve were not alone

Cain's sacrifice was not acceptable to God. .....why?
Cain was cursed and at the same time marked lest he should not be killed......why?
cain says to god that he fears to leave and wander the earth as he will be killed by other men.
who are these other men? who created these other men?
that means that earth was inhabited by others!
Adam and Eve were not alone!!!!!!!!!