I am clean

Recently, I been to a cultural festival nearer to the place I live.

Part of it, there were lot of  south Indian classical concerts, religious talks and bajans.
Tasty snacks, beverages were distributed. Many of them were glued to these stalls trying almost all of the varieties (I was lucky to get two, three snack varieties struggling beyond these snack zombies... :) ). 

One such program was 'Religious Speech' by a mid aged women. She gave very inspiring speech on spirituality. Quoted incidents from epics and other religious literature. All went well, time to complete the talk.

She sang 'Namavali', a kind of bajan reciting God's names in tune. She wanted the audience to join her in bajan. A feeble chorus joined her.

Then she said 'Your voice not even audible to me, how will god hear you. Sing louder'. Giggles in the auditorium, then the chorus volume increased.

Then she said, "when singing God's name, one should raise their hands above their head". Again only few hands went up.

Now she made a clever move. She said that her guru used to tell her "Everybody wants to sing God's name with hands up their heads. But their hands are fastened with their sins". Moment she completes this statement, everybody in the auditorium do so (Except myself and my room mate, we told each other that we have more sins :))

It was a excellent powerful pan shot of enlightened audience for the live camera covering for a TV channel. The lady who gave the spiritual talk was happy with the feel of victory, walked away.

Two things came to my mind at this point Firstly, A Tamil movie comedy where comedian Vadivelu does similar kind of statement when he makes his village believe that he can show them god. Secondly, How clever people are(:) really).

People were so clever to cheat themselves. All they were trying to do was to make a statement 'I am clean'. Many would oppose my point, but this is fact.

I conclude with a quote,(reused from one of my friend's gtalk status message)
Be a good person, But don't try to prove it.