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Where progress means regress. So what with this looped tuck-in-traffic
whine? A book on any of our cities can be titled till digging like the
autobiography of archaeologist Howard (Tutankhamun) Carter. Infrastructure
construction manically leads to massive destruction. Long-time title-holder
Calcutta has been trumped by Mumbai where the coastal road mauGuha and
the late Girish Karnad, who went on to lend their clout to the BLF; other
committed citizens make this perhaps the only crowdfunded major Indian
latest. This time, I barely recognised mall-to-mall carpeted Infantry and Brigade
roads. MG Road bling was blindingly un-Gandhian. But design and space
elevate the plate-glass jungle. True, tech parks have overpowered the leafy
avenues, but Cubbon Park and All Bag retain their wooded splendor. Lured by
the siren song of Mysore silk, I braved the jostling neon of a Cinderella-end
Commercial Street; then retrieved sanity and memories in the musty charm of
the Bangalore Club. Topped by Fish Mole at Cushy, where a portlier Perm,
grandson of the founder, still solicitously moved from table to table, drawing
his energy from knowing that I serve five generations of loyal patrons in a
single day. The more things change, the less remains. But let forget the traffic
snarl and raise a toast instead to Cushy famed bacon jam. The attainment of
Sama-Rasya, sahaj, an equanimous state of mind, lies at the heart of the
Dattatreya-Yadu dialogue in the Bhagavad Purina. King Badu, troubled by his
father Yalata decision to divest him of kingship, wanders into a forest, where
he sees an avadhuta, a wandering free soul, in ecstatic happiness.
Wonderstruck, Badu asks the young enunciate the secret of such happiness.
Dattatreya, the avadhuta who has shaken off all the cares of worldly existence,
sits the king down and gently reminds him of the need to connect back with
nature. Nature itself is the greatest teacher, the Adi Guru, beyond all
philosophical and theological constructs. Dattatreya narrates the story of his
24 universal teachers, his gurus, having learnt from the five elements earth, air,
sky, water, fire the sun and the moon, the sea, 12 animals, a prostitute, a
child, a maiden and a blacksmith. He tells the king of the unique lessons he
has imbibed by carefully observing the nature of the five elements. From the
earth, he has picked up the need for forbearance and the import of doing good
to others; from air he has learnt the value of non-attachment and freedom;
from the sky he has figured out the all-pervasiveness of the Self, which yet is
untouched by any contact with any object. rom water, he has picked up the
need for purity and coolness, as it cleanses everything; and from fire, he has
learnt the need for austerity, since the flame of self-knowledge alone can
devour all worldly desires. His observation of the moon, which appears to
increase or decrease on account of the shadow of the earth, has taught him
that the Self is complete and changeless but appears to.
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