To Be Or Not To Be..

Carrying on a somewhat similar train of thought which I wrote in my earlier entry on Samskara, I would like to share my thought on a monumental scene from Silsila.

This is one of the best movies you will see and especially I like one scene when Shashi Kapoor dies in a plane crash and his brother Amitabh Bachhan comes to console Mr. Kapoor's fiancee Jaya Bhaduri. Very peacefully, he tells her, you are young, beautiful...who wouldn't marry you. Jaya Bhaduri turns around and asks him, would you marry me? Classic scene. Amitabh Bachhan not knowing what to say tells her what a lot of us would do. Yes, I will marry you. Very conveniently, he takes a position that places him on a moral high ground. What happens in the rest of the movie is the struggle between keeping this moral high ground and an itch to become a trivial lover of Rekha (which requires climbing down from the exalted position).

How many of us find ourselves in such situations in our everyday lives? I have struggled so many times that I have lost count (though the circumstances have not been similar or identical). It's so easy to go up and take this high ground but to climb down from it is so difficult, almost impossible. So this is my moral. People say that sacrifice, do the right things, become a righteous person, an example for the society to follow...all of it is right and desirable but before you start walking on this path, think about where it would lead you.

IVORY TOWER AT THE MORAL HIGH GROUND IS A LONELY PLACE.