I do not generally watch movies, much less, Hindi movies. And if I am flying, I generally avoid movies altogether, even if it long-haul. The takeaway from a standard Hindi movie value is the equivalent relaxation from two shots of tequila,- temporary relief and life-long regret. I avoid the former, I abstain from the latter.
But then, stereotyping Bollywood is like stereotyping Kollywood. The same factory that dishes out the regular trash, also dished out Pithamakan. And thus, we come to Chalo Dilli.
The whole movie is about two sharply contrasted and well stereotyped characters (but of course) who end up driving together to Delhi from Mumbai, via train, car, truck, jeep, and camel-cart. One is a high-flying professional and the other is a desi shopkeeper. By the end of the movie, the professional gets the message that life is much more than the small obstacles she faces that equate to big deals in her life. The end is, less climactic as it is poignant, and in the last few scenes of the movie lies the message of life.
Personally, this couldn't have come at a better time for me. I have been struggling with work, and standing on my head to secure a particular project, as if this will be the panacea to all my problems.
But then, the universe has a purpose for everything. Right down to the movies that you watch. Else, I, who never watch anything on-board, but for The Simpsons and the History channel, had to settle down to Hindi. And when things have been going bad for quite some time for me, and when I have been focusing on business growth to address issues as diverse as health and personal life, the tag-line of the movie becomes the message for me: Kaun si badi baat ho gayi? (what's the big deal?)
In all probability, the inevitable will happen. I might or might not secure the project that I have been struggling for. But over the last 24 hours, everything has taken a dramatic shift (in the mind), and so, if the inevitable is inevitable: what's the big deal?
“What's the big deal?- Is another name for the process of validation, non-resistance and acceptance and surrender.
ReplyDeleteDo we have the ability in life to say “Yes, the experiences we undergo are well deserved experiences of a valid expression of One who is God? Our experience is yet another way for the One to manifest itself and experience itself. This too is the One. This is ultimately just as valid a choice as any other choice and so I choose to grant life/this person/this experience/this thing the freedom to be the way it is. I choose to allow the One to express itself in this way as well.”
How much of our lives are lived in opposition to someone or something? Why do we make a big deal of so many things, events, persons, experiences in life?
When we make it a big deal- we create for ourselves an internal state of conflict, resistance, and division.
Why not end this internal conflict and separation at our core and be in a state of acceptance and peace with All That Is, with every single component of All That Is.
Some people talk about loving what is, or being in a state of non-resistance, or letting go and letting God do his Will, or Surrender or whatever else… Basically they all boil down to the same thing: They’re all ultimately just another way of saying yes to what is, to letting go of the internal state of division and opposition to what is.
What’s the big deal is another way of putting it
When we make anything a big deal we unconsciously force ourselves into experiencing that we do not want to experience. What we resist persists
It is easy for more choices to become available to us when we are in a state of acceptance than when we are in a state of resistance and the more choices become available, the more we end engaging ourselves in the energy of making choices, and the more we engage in this choice, the more peace and joy becomes available and the more the very same energies of well-being, peace and joy begin showing up around us in this world!