THE MAZE

Don’t  we all love solving problems? Yeah! I can hear many saying nay, while some ARE JUST DOING IT ALWAYS ,well even though I was referring to problem solving in mathematics, the topic under scanner today is problem solving in real life.

I do hope we always look forward for many things to happen uninterrupted, like having a permanent job, getting your salary paid regularly, always longing that only our kid should get that standing ovation in all fields, that  our dear ones; father ,mother ,brothers ,sisters and kids should always be in the pink of their health, that our domestic help should come in time and of course not absent herself, that the train/flight/bus should be on time, that there should be no power cuts and that  every one of us should be the boss and no one should boss us over. Well such expectations and desires are endless and even if one activity is not going as per our expectation, then we have a problem. The moment we have a problem, all of us would like it to get resolved the earliest, so that ,life flows  like a steady river.

Well now the issue starts with how big or small our problem is, whether we are capable of solving it, whether we just have a single simple problem on hand or , has the problem too come as a serial string.

Well what ever it is, I did have a problem. In the recent days I earnestly believed that the problem should get solved(more than that, felt that it was my star, fate, karma and ill luck, which was the cause of my irony ).

This was the time that I had a whole  8-10 hours where I had nothing else to do than to brood over my ill luck and endlessly keep tuning down into the 80 channels on the television. To my surprise I found that I was not alone in this world, for there were many people along with me, because there were lot of dial in programmes and many people wer e calling up the stations and seeking remedies for their problems. This caught my fancy . When there seems to be some solution, why miss them? So I also started watching them ,to see whether I get some clue.

I was on a channel, there was a person sitting with a Laptop and of course an anchor who was aiding him by receiving the calls and transferring the person for a one is to one discussion. Oh! The first caller had landed. The man was asking , “What is your date of birth? What problems do you have?” The caller gave both the info spontaneously. There was a response from the person and he started reciting, “Your zodiac is so and so, the planets that you have to activate are Venus, Saturn, Mars. For this you have to wear a gem associated with the planet . Some times he spoke about a yantra and then there were at least two to three planets that were supposed to be deactivated, and during the 30 minutes program almost all the planets were under the zone of discussion for either activation or deactivation. Now I believed that I  too have to go thro this process identify which are the problem creating planets and how to enhance them.

I was wondering on this subject and accidently bumped on yet another channel, here again the set was different.  But two people were there to help people come out of their difficulty, again there was a stream of calls ,the same questions ,DOB ,and your problem.NOW THE REMEDY WAS DIFFERENT. THE EXPERT SAID, “Your Jupiter is weak or Saturn is in retro grade. And now the people were being guided to visit the shrines of identified deities who can mitigate the ill effect and make wonders for you.

My search did not stop here, I was on a different time band and a different channel, and here was an expert on vasthu. He was enquiring “What’s in the north of your house? Were is the kitchen placed? Is your tap in the north eastern corner? Have you closed your window facing north?” And suggesting various alterations that has to be made minor as well as major, like even turning ones house upside down. I started going around my house to check whether what ever deviations he said existed in my house and whether that was the reason for my problems.

Thinking about this in my browsing schedule ,now I had parked on a different channel, here was yet another expert who spoke about cosmic energy and activating cosmic energy thro pyramid, this was too heavy for me to handle, so flip I slipped into another channel, here again I could listen to people calling up an expert for respite, now the scene was slightly different the expert was a swamiji, who was fluently reciting some mantra in Sanskrit,(I doubt whether the caller could even capture a word out of it) and each person was given a mantra to be recited 108 times, 48 times etc, so that he would get the benevolence of the god .

When all these things were churning into my head, I had landed up into yet another channel which was claiming that once you train your mind and invoke the inner conscious then you can completely come out of any problems. Just due to paucity I am stopping here because I had encounters with at least a dozen more channels with different techniques

Now my difficulty is that I believe all of them and I guess following their advice would really give good results , but the problem is what do I really do should I go and get those gems, start visiting temples, recite mantras, demolish my kitchen and redo my house or start  practicing to control my mind. Well this is when I remembered problem solving in maths, the lesser the number of variables, the easier to solve and as the number of variable increases, the problem becomes very complex and tedious to solve.

SO NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO I RESOLVED TO DO THE EASIEST THING THAT IS TO KEEP QUIET,WELL IMAGINE WHAT DO WE DO WHEN YOU GET A VERY TOUGH QUESTION PAPER, IN MATHS,JUST WRITE YOUR ROLL NO AND SIT FOR 30 MINUTES AND SUBMIT YOUR PAPER AND COME OUT WELL THAT’S IT.GOD solves all our difficult problem.