Don't drive Red or you will Die !!!

“Priest,it’s the lunar eclipse today evening.what should I do to dodge its impacts,” one male voice uttered on a leading news channel.The vista of the news channel was a priest sitting along with a spruce and snappy lady,the correspondent of the biggest farce I had ever seen.

“This lunar eclipse doesn’t bode auspicious for the human species,it brings with it sufferings for human beings,people who have their mars and Uranus at the nadir will be the worst effected. They will lose jobs,won’t get a baby boy and will have their marriages at stake”promulgated the priest who was donning more than a dozen beadings on his neck along with 3-4 different colors on his forehead.

Had that male voice not uttered him Priest,I would have assumed it as some live circus show or 'the great indian laughter show' on television with this person as the buffoon.But he was not a clown but a smart professional who is fooling naïve and unsophisticated people of my country.

“Priest,what should I do to evade this ominous tragic event,”mouthed the male voice again.
“Take 3 bowls of oil,see your face in each bowl at an interval of 1 hour and at the completion of 3 hours,put that oil on your handpump,”the priest instructed,as if he was the biggest heart specialist of the nation and have had many successful heart transplantation feathers in his cap.

With almost 20 live calls, a dozen commercial breaks and the priest getting a couple of lac rupees for these crap and vulgar suggestions,the show ended. But it left me pierced and penetrated.
Penetrated because on the weekend, I found that the Lunar eclipse show of that leading news channel topped the TRP list of all the shows of all news channels for that week.

I was still a wounded person,and one day walking on the roads of Bangalore(I like ice-cream,so was going to the famous cool-joint of jayanagar),I found a funky billboard on the side of the road.
“If you are jobless,don’t have a baby,want to go abroad or have any other problem,we have a guaranteed solution.The solution which hasn’t failed for years.contact us at 98xxxxxxxx,”the board read.

Now the wounded snake,lion and Ravi Agni are very dangerous.You shouldn’t try to try them,but this board tried.

“Zodiac consultants,”a sweet female voice said.
“I am facing so many grave problems,can I meet the priest,”I said.I just wanted to meet that priest and hurl out my entire frustration at him.On getting appointment of same evening,I reached that priest.

“Hmm,what day and time were you born,”asked the priest.He was a funky priest,dressed in costly suit,I guess he had his farcical business hugely prosperous.
“11th September,4:30 am,”I told any time.

After silence of a few minutes,he started:

“your moon and sun are at their nadir,”the priest expressed his concern.

“Moon is the only natural satellite of earth,the place where the man has already walked in july 1969.And sun is the fusion of hydrogen to helium,the centre of solar system around which all planets including earth rotate.How can they be at nadir or zenith,they are what they are.The same for all,”I thought but didn’t utter any word.

“your mars is very dangerous,”the priest said making his face very grim.
“Don’t drive Red or you will die,”the priest concluded.

“What you just said,Don’t drive Red or you will die,”I was an enraged bull.Taking his costly kurta from his neck in my fist,I shouted.Unawares of this reaction,he stood still
“Tell me,what’s the connection between red and death,”I shrieked my lungs out.
“I said tell me,”I shouted.The receptionist from outside came in hearing this voice,but dared not interfere
“What in the hell has time to do with job,babies or foreign trips.What has lunar eclipse to do with mars,Uranus you bastards,”I said gazing at the receptionist.Anticipating that she could be given a slap-kiss on her cheek any time,she ran out of scene.
I pushed him back on his posh chair and came out.I am sure he won’t amend his ways

Coming back to my house,after cooling down I sat to write this blog. I am thinking what makes these priests or consultants evolve these theories.And with my observation and analysis,what conclusion I reached is this:

Superstition and politics has a very close connection. The development of a nation is inversely proportional to the superstition. The more developed a nation,the more people are prosperous,the lesser the mars,Uranus thing. The poorer a nation,the less-confident it is.The less transformed and transmuted public and the more superstition.

The nation India which has 28 percent population living below poverty line, and 1/4th of nation’s population earning less than $0.40 per day(you read it right),how can superstition be eradicated?
The naïve and illiterate people think these planets as supernatural powers rather than as celestial bodies,the celestial bodies which are nothing but gas giants or smaller rocky terrestrials.

How can stones like ruby,sapphire help one crack IAS,GMAT or CAT et al? How will putting 3 bowls on a handpump help one take a job or get a baby boy? How would putting a couple of beans in the river help dodge the sinister? And how would a lunar eclipse where the sun comes in front of moon effect our lives?

But I won’t get many takers of my post. There would be people who will still consider these celestial bodies as supernatural,if this post hurts them,then yes this is my motive. And if they got hurted,then I confess my motive fructified. Fructified because this hurting would help them have a relook at their notion and convictions.To look at the other part of picture-the picture where we find our lives decided by ourselves,by our own decisions,by our own actions and the picture where planets say that they are fine where they are and that they don't keep any interest in involving themselves in human lives.

We won’t be able to eradicate superstition unless we eradicate poverty from our society.Poverty and joblessness diminish their confidence and willpower. And one can’t get his life transformed unless he regains that confidence,the belief in his own ability and the fire from within to attain it.

Interestingly, I have the Red car which I have been driving for last 2 years.So I stop my post here because I have to drive the same red car to the McDonald to eat my favorite McVeggie with extra-cheese :-)