During the time of world cup match......

Scene 1: shiavalik Hostel's  common room. The match between Pakistan and India is about to start. The room is jam packed with enthusiastic audience. Although I would have loved to watch the match I had to do some urgent work and I was proceeding to the lab. One of friend stopped me and asked " match nahin dek rah tu . kya indian hai tu??" are you not patriotic ?" He was asking very seriously , I had to accept that I was not a great patriot ! and proceed. Is cheering  the Indian
team  during a cricket match  the yard stick to measure patriotism ?

Scene 2:  I managed to came back quickly finishing the job. To everybody's joy india won. Then I heard the  loud roar " bharat mata ki .jai '" for many number of times. Then comes " pakistan ki...... murdabad" Is that necessay ?

Is patriotism  a civilized narrow mindedness ?  Or how one draw the narrow line separating patriotism and jingoism ?

Let me go again tangentially, sorry for the incoherence . The source of all narrow-mindedness arise form our own ego satisfying desires. The mind's dexterity to divide anything it see as friends and foes, relative and non-relative, likes and
dislikes is profound. And most of us live in the false notion about life. Do we have a uniform friend and constant foe ? We are but a mere puppet in hand of life dancing with it and constantly get tossed by the mighty waves of love and hatred and  feelings and emotions created by it.

All the dualities that we see in this world is its crafty creation and it has only relative existence. Love and hatred, friend and foe and a host of such allied words. When we hate nobody what is the meaning of love? When I say "I love you" indirectly it means that there are may people which I hate or love less.

Caught in its whirl pool one is sure to get knocked down today or tomorrow. And then we ask the most celebrated question " why with me God ? ye mera sath hi kyun ho  gaya? "

When mind becomes the breeding place of desires, the intellect gets clogged and apparently loses its direction. And in the whole process one get victimized. Why are  we trading peace and happiness for transitory pleasures???

Meticulous and ruthless analysis will reveal that our likes and dislikes are also changing. As we are growing or evolving, our needs are also getting sophisticated. The golden words " there is nothing constant but change " is resonating in my mind . But if everything is changing there should be a changeless thing which holds this change. The ever dynamic river
is supported by river bed.

Is there such a changeless thing ?
 

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