Blog swami

During a long phone discussion with a dear friend he enquired about the absence of blogs for long.
That reminded me of a chapter in CBSE Hindi text about Tansen and one of his guru (I believe Swami Haridas). It talked about being a sangeet samrat (roughly music king) and sangeet swami (roughly music god). While Tansen was sangeet “king” and sang for the king. Guru was a sangeet “god” and sang for god. Tansen sang to entertain the king and was paid and taken care of well by the king as a jewel in King’s court. Guru sang for himself and god, and god paid in terms of job satisfaction. It probably talked about the greatness of being god.

Being a god might be great, but being a king is tough. God as a customer is easy to please but king is a tough one.

Something like that, being “blog swami” is easier than being a “blog samrat”. Writing blogs for one’s own pleasure is much easier than being a bolgger who writes for a reader group.
After all a blog samrat can’t afford to be silent for long.
I am a blog swami although not by choice. But yes I envy all the really entertaining and though provoking blog samrats out there.

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I chose to be Busy

I have been too busy as usual. Probably it is entirely a personal choice to be busy or not. Just a look around and we can always see a lot of things that can be done, whether at work (clean up this one document we had missed, read that one article we missed, review something or other) or at home (clean up this part, fix that switch, arrange that shelf). But we have the choice to do or not to do.

On the same line of thought I believe “One can never be too busy to not reply to a friend’s mail or call”

But me being busy is definitely not the reason for not updating my blog for past 56 days. The reason was something else, which I don’t know. Probably I just got bored of my own blog.