Cannabis Diaries

I have never doubted the feeling that ‘Knowledge can come in a flash!’. It’s just that even though, over the years, I have been having ‘Flashes of Genius’, I was waiting for that experience they call ‘Revelation’. I Was. For their respective ‘Moments’, Buddha required a banyan tree and Mohammad, a cave. All that I needed was a Sub, a litchi juice, 3 Snickers, ear-splitting music & some Cannabis…

Have u heard of – ‘Death from seeing Truth’? I hadn’t. Until that moment. The ‘Ultimate Truth’ is blinding. It rips u apart, humiliates u to the guts and dwarfs u until u implode into nothingness. The waves of ‘Self Realization’ lash at u at such a brutal momentum, that after initial pangs of pain & panic (which are pretty short-lived), u lose all the resistance, and ready yourself to drown in the meaning of Life, Universe n Everything. Eating (Lays – American Style Cream n Onion) yourself to death or Hearing (Judas Priest) yourself to death become obvious choices to push yourself over the ridge…

And not oddly, u feel blessed that u have taken this ‘Leap of Faith’. Because, in your spiritual awakening, u have realized that the Death is far from what u had thought it is. It is in fact as now u can see clearly, a secret door, a stairway to the ‘Next Life’! A Life, in the middle of several ‘bygone’ & infinite ‘forthcoming’ lives!

“ Travel back in time to your school days. U r in 5^th Grade now. Ask yourself how the hell did u land up there. Congratulate yourself for the ‘Huge’ efforts that were made in passing Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd,3^rd, n the 4^th grade. Now strain your curious 5^th grade mind to find answer to this question: “If I want to earn a six figure pocket money, how many more grades shall I have to pass?” – Sec. school, High school, Graduate school, post-graduate school…  ugh!!!

“ Come back to the Present. Imagine – ‘Your entire present life, is equivalent to an year spent in 5^th grade! Each of the past grades, right from KG to 4^th grade, corresponds to a separate, unique past life! Each of the subsequent grades (school, college, MBA, marriage…), corresponds to a separate, unique and more eventful future life, provided you pass the ‘Final Exam’ – Exam of Life (or Death)!! This ‘Final Exam’ has several aliases: Death, Spiritual Awakening, Revelation, Ultimate Truth, Enlightenment n many others…

“ As in different grades of school, your experiences in different lives are Similar though not same. Ur life is a level in a game of Pacman, only here u yourself move through the Maze (maze of Life), eating Dots (experiences) & avoiding monsters (who can demote u to a previous Life). Once u r done eating all Dots, i.e. living all experiences, u move to the next level- i.e. Next Life.

“ That’s about bitter-sweet experiences. What about people? Are they similar, like experiences? No! They r not similar, but The Same!! (U move up through different grades in school, so do your friends, don’t they?) The people u encounter in the Present Life are the same ones u had encountered in the past lives & will be meeting in your future lives. The only difference is that these people, like u, are maintained in the Different Versions of their Existence (version 1.0, version 2.0, n like…). This just means that your girlfriend Sweetie (version 20.0) in your 20^th Life is only slightly improved version of your girlfriend Sweetie (version 5.0) in your 5^th Life.

“ And this fits perfectly with the most widely observed phenomenon in the world. Everybody, every now n then, gets a feeling that they r surrounded by ‘Dumb’ people.  But on the contrary, these ‘Dumb’ people, r in fact, the older versions (version1.0) of their existence & u (version 2.0 or 3.0 based on your level of frustration) r stuck with them until u move on to the ‘Next Life’ where u catch up with the Same ‘Now-Not-So-Dumb’ people in their enhanced versions (version 2.0). It is not different from the situation when all your friends have moved to the 6^th or 7^th grade & u (by the virtue of failing the Exam) r still warming the benches of the 5^th grade. So, in reality, it’s u who is So Dumb, that all others surrounding u have already travelled to the Next Life & r expecting u to catch the earliest flight n show up.                     “

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As the ‘Moment of Truth’ approaches its Tipping Point, u start flying through the Universe of Lives, taking peeks into all your past, present, future lives. You try to store as much as u can of this journey in the narrowing compartments of your conscious mind. U become sure that tomorrow, u r going to wake up in a brand new Life. U fade into the ignorance hoping that u haven’t skipped many…

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Ps. People, share your experiences…