Wednesday, March 15, 2006

IN DEFENCE OF KICK

IN DEFENCE OF KICK

BY

S. MAHESHKUMAR


IN all goodness, the word kick would rather mean an under-estimated jargon. Our pleasures, pains, achievements, glories, etc., reflect a count of kick over our psyche. In every walk of our life, we work hard with the hope of the kick of pleasure. If there is no creation with kick, even the creator ought to have blamed unscrupulously.

The word in suggestion has got its business with the earthlings, i.e., the life forms with souls. It does not have any relation as far as dead matter is concerned. To achieve a task, a dote of kick is used as a buffer in such a way that we could in the course of time gradually develop easiness to place ourselves into the grip of victory. Consider the extreme cases: - Living with no pleasure or pain that is without kick would result in the termination of the species itself. If the amount of pleasure or pain that were with immense of excessive kick thanks to cocaine, morphine, opium or any other stimulant would result in the demise of the subject in question. So, we must have to accustom ourselves with a balanced diet of kick to further our endeavour. There are a lot of things that will help us to carry our enterprise with potent kick in its inherent nature. All one has to do is to have a clever mind to conceive it in healthier proportions. Say Music for example would lead to Moksha if advocated correctly. In every walk of our life, we used to dream of a distant pleasure that is synonymous with kick, even a thought of it would boost our arteries to pump blood in order to adopt ourselves to stress and strain!

In all our past, we were trying to achieve the elixir of ectoplasm that identifies itself with the outcome of the kundalini yoga, which gives always a glorified kick in communion with God the Supreme. There ends the crisis of earthlings! All pavements lead to the same goal that is liberation. In this world full of unknown forces we struggle hard to get an unceasing pleasure. But the strives of us cause in little of it that too in bits of measure as given in ounces by God. Even a saint who had renounced all the mundane entities would aspire for the pleasure of communion with God. “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever” is the dictum of Keats in favour of the so-called kick. Here joy is an output of the kick that we used to get whenever our perception encounters with things of beauty.

Of all that gives us pleasure which is the supreme? It is nothing but the Intellect that understands the abstract entity that is God or Truth through our ceaseless work. Kicks act as the steps of the ladder leading to God. Intellectually it can be said about the merger of ourselves with Truth as the collision of two points. Here the points are compared with our egos. The contact would fuse the ego as it dashes with the point of Truth. There would not be any base element left after the collision with Truth. This is called as Satchitanananda, i.e., Being-Consciousness-Bliss.

—S. Maheshkumar.

{Composed on 27th / 28th February 1998 at 2 AM, Indian Standard Time.}

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