Talk 6: My song of I-ness

Talk 6: My song of I-ness

18 September 2020 Off By Naginder Sehmi

Earth’s disease identified

In a previous talk I started to say something about singing a song. I am back. The chorus of the song is  “I-ness is a grave chronic disease; the medication also is in it.”  From my young days, every morning without thinking I’ve been singing blindly with my fellow humans the name of the looped gene of BHG. I was convinced that simply singing this prescription would kill the bacteria and Earth would become and stay well. The magic mantra vaccine in my mother tongue, Punjabi, is:

Haunmain dhirag rog hai daroo bhi iss mahe.

I have already said earlier that the Earth-Doctors knew the antidote for BHG a long time ago. But they hesitated to administer it fearing that the result could be auto-destruction, suicidal.

Demon bacteria defined.

At times humankind rises to lofty celestial heights,

At times it falls into a yawning abyss,

Incapable of remaining stable, the greedy human being rummages around in every direction.

Death is prewritten at birth, yet humankind strives to stay forever.

Unlike in other living beings, human vacillation allowed the BHG gene loop of I-ness to strengthen and become chronic. That is what frightens me. BHG will soon kill Earth. Is it predestined? Because my song continues:

The BHG come into the world and depart in I-ness; give and take in I-ness; earn in I-ness and lose in I-ness; become truthful and false in I-ness; commit sins and purify in I-ness; reincarnate in heaven or hell in I-ness; rejoice and moan in I-ness; I-ness makes them ignorant, wise and casteless; I-ness makes them lose the essence of liberation. Attached to Maya they linger in the dark; unable to understand I-ness, they babble and argue, incapable of seeing themselves as part of nature. (Adapted from the Adi Granth, sixteenth century.)

Of all the demons, greed is the mightiest operating part of I-ness. Greed drags humans to violence, makes them lose self-control, leading them to arrogance and selfishness, insults, jealousy, caste and colour prejudices, sexual and racial discrimination, frustration, and chauvinism. Of all species, these traits are super dominant in humans.

I am the culprit

Be warned! I am the nasty BHG responsible for Earth’s sickness and her impending demise. Earth-Doctors are no different from me. They join me to sing the magic mantra: “I-ness is a grave chronic disease; the medication also is in it.” But none is ready to prick the vaccine or swallow the antidote against I-ness and save Earth. What options do we have?

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