Existential Pain (Calvin and Krishna, 13 April 2009)

Calvin and Krishna, 13 April 2009

A woman has a right to get perplexed when she is declared as Krishna and Calvin by two different FB quizzes. After several failed attempts to shoe away the thought, she decided to take a stab at reconciling the personalities of Calvin and Krishna. Being a statistician, she is fully aware of the dangers of such analysis*. However, for the same reason she cannot help control her instincts to evaluate the available data for association.

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Data:
Calvin - makes snowmen, dreams away in the classroom, enjoys destructive acts, has complete disregard to consequences.
Krishna- steals makkhan or clothes of gopis, enjoys raslila, has mastered diplomacy (narova kunjarova etc).

Analysis:
Both of them perform action in fullness and every moment is pure enjoyment for them.
There is no thought, no causality and subject-verb-object is reduced to verb only. For example, when Calvin is making a snowman, " making" is foremost, calvin and snowman are secondary. Same is the case when Krishna is stealing makkhan. All pleasure/ananda comes from being that act. May it be playing in the snow, flying in a spaceship, singing and dancing with gopis, killing bugs or people in the war. The smile comes from "being one with that (act) without any separation". Being in the moment.

Conclusion: There is evidence of a strong association between Calvin and Krishna.
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Do you believe above conclusion?


Well, herein lies the importance of the warning about the validity of such analysis. 

Calvin is no Krishna; his acts are mere impulses, there is no understanding, no knowing behind them.

Now, do you know if you are just acting impulsively or acting with knowing?

THE END


(this is another example of how silly such analyses can get)
* http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=45319617681&h=zWAgF&u=b6wRv

 



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