Finding the person that never was
Credit: Image downloaded via Google search My favorite scene in the movie Kantara is the one in the beginning when the first bhoota kola is shown. The son of the landlord asks Panjurli (demigod): Is it the demigod talking or the performer talking? Panjurli replies: If it's the performer talking you will see me again. If it's demigod... (and disappears into the forest). This is a profound exchange which has at its source the core of spirituality. Let me explain. We harbor a notion that we are a "fixed" entity at the core and so is everyone around us. This leads to the belief that there exists a "person" who is happy one moment and sad at another, peaceful sometimes and angry sometimes and so on. The person underneath is a given whose reality and existen...