Katha 03 – Man, pen and his sayings - D

One man got a pen. He had something to tell. So he wrote a lot. But nobody paid any attention, then and afterwards. This was the future and it was inevitable. But he didn’t know that. So he continued to write a lot. He thought he was doing something different, something useful, something precious, something great. Thus he wasted his life.

One man with a pen had something to tell. But he had a vision. He knew what would happen afterwards. Still he continued writing –hoping against hope- /with _wedi_ false _ hope.

One man with a pen had something to tell. But he knew the future. So he didn’t write.

One man with a pen had something to tell. He also knew the future. So he broke the pen and used the nib as an ear-cleaner. Thus he spent his life cleaning his ears. This was another, but may be a better way of wasting life.

One man with a pen also knew the future.

Still he urged the man in front to read. But it was useless.

He urged and urged and even tried to force many more people to read. But nobody listened and nobody read.

On the contrary, they unanimously declared him an idiot.

One man with a pen also knew the future.

So, after writing, he grabbed the neck of the man in front and pressed his head and then hit it hard in his writings.

He tried and tried till he became tired and in the attempts broke the head of the man in front.

But it was not possible for him to make the man in front to read.

One man with a pen wrote a lot. Afterwords he came to know what happened afterwords. Then he committed suicide by stabbing himself with his pen.

One man with a pen also knew the future. Still he wrote. After completing his writing he stabbed the man in front with his pen and put a full stop with the point of nib coming out from the back and dripping with blood.  

One man with a pen also knew the future. So he threw his pen and took a sword. With the sword he killed the man in front who won’t listen. But if the man in front is dead, who will listen? But this he realized afterwards.

Katha 03 – Man, pen and his sayings - C

One man got a pen. He wrote a lot. But he had nothing to tell.

Second one wrote a lot. He had something to tell. But he couldn’t tell it.

Third man wrote a lot. He had something to tell. He could tell it also. But nobody understood it.

Forth one wrote a lot, he told what he had to tell and everybody understood it. But it was useless for them.

Because --

It was of no use to one.

Second one was reluctant to use it.

Third one was unable to utilize it.

Forth one was adamant. He didn’t want to use it.

Fifth one was blind.

Sixth one was blind by choice. He refused to read.

Seventh one was ignorant.

Eighth one was idiot.

Ninth one was an imbecile.

Tenth one had different opinions.

Eleventh one was wise himself.  

And twelfth one had something different to tell and he was writing it also. 

There is another story also.

One man wrote to tell something. But it was useless.

Because ---

One was blind.

Second one was unable to read.

The third one could listen but the written material made no sounds.

The language of the fourth one was different.

The fifth one’s language was same but he used different script.

The sixth one didn’t know, something useful for him was written.

The seventh one didn’t have approach to ‘what was written’.

The eighth one was denied the access to ‘what was written’. 

Someone said against ‘what was written’ and forced the ninth one against reading it.   

And one made it a point that ‘what was written’ should not reach those for whom it was written.

So again, what’s the use of telling or writing something?

Katha 03 – Man, pen and his sayings - B

One man had something to tell. He remembered it by hard. But only he remembered it. The ‘something he wanted to tell’ died with him.

So another man taught ‘the something he wanted to tell’ to his son. After his death his son remembered. And he taught it to his son so he also remembered. But by that time it was outdated.

Still he taught it to his son. … And it continued for generations. And it continued to be more and more outdated.

After all, everything that everyone wants to tell is not “Vedas” or “Bhagwat-Geeta”.

And in the process, many generations forgot to tell something that they wanted to tell. Or didn’t they want to tell? Or had they nothing to tell?

What’s the use of telling something that evaporates, looses meaning, becomes outdated, becomes incomprehensible and nobody wants to hear? 

Katha 03 – Man, pen and his sayings - A

There was a man. He had something to tell. He babbled a lot. Words evaporated in the air. Everyone forgot.

There was a man. He had something to tell. He painted the signs on the rock. They remained for few hundred years.

One man had something to tell. He carved the signs on the rock. They remained for thousand years. But after thousand years nobody could understand the meaning.

One man had something to tell. He made a pen and paper and wrote some signs on the paper with pen . But the ink spread and faded out and paper turned yellow and brittle after some years.

Other man also had something to tell. He made some sounds in front of a microphone and recorded them, first on a cylinder, then on a disc, then on a tape and then again on a (Compact?, Hard?) disc.    

Then one man thought, the thoughts and feelings are different from some sounds and some symbols. Telling is different from writing. Saying something is different from preserving it for future.

And another man thought, why technology advances in the direction of preserving something nobody wants to pay attention. There is no technology to make one think or to make one say what one thinks or to make one listen and understand what other is saying or to make one wise?

Why one wants to preserve his sayings? Why one wants others to remember what he says?

Why one wants to say something in the first place?