Had a pre-lunch chat with Ripple. Thought I’ll share…

me: Thought I’ll checkout on the web what all digital cameras are available.
There are hundreds of them there.
I just got overwhelemed.
Ripple: woh to hai..
me: Reminded me of the age we live in.
Now I know why people were happier and merrier in old times
And why stress is problem #1 today.
Ripple: haan.. ab to agar bread bhi khareedni ho to tension ho jaati hai..
kaun sa lein..
me: Earlier, if they wanted to buy a digital camera, they won’t have to decide which one.
Ripple: so I can justify my impulsive buying in some way :D
me: This whole concept of ‘Customer is the king’ seems to be the moth eating away an entire generation.
Ripple: haan.. par isi blind consumerism se hi .. economy badhegi ..
aur hamein milega.. false sense of happiness and security
:)
isko rok nahi sakte..
apne aap ko is-se alag karne ki thodi koshish kar sakte hain..
me: We’ll also get sense of sadness (uska camera mere camera se bada kaise?) and sense of insecurity (if I don’t keep up with the pace, I’ll not be able to maintain my lifestyle).
Ripple: isiliye false sense …
jab tak maine uska camera nahi dekha..
tab tak to bahut khushi hogi..
:)
aur sirf uska camera mere se achchha kaise nahi..
“hain !! uske paas bhi yahi Camera ?!!”
:)
me: ;)
Ripple: “sabke paas yahi camera, badalna padega!!”
me: ha ha ha!!
Interesting thing is that this behaviour is not new.
In Vendantic philosophy, precisely this is what has been called Maya.
What we have today is just a bigger form of the same thing.
Ripple: haan..aaj camera aur gaadi hai..
pehele tha.. “arey unke ghar mein roz parathe bante hai !!”
“hamare ghar mein sirf roti”
me: ya fir, unke ghar mein to doodh ki nadi bahti hai.
aur roj roti per dher sara ghee laga ker khate hain.
Ripple: heirarchy of needs
ek poori kar .. doosri khadi ho jaati hai..
me: I think it is more like a web than heirarchy
Ripple: web kaise ? do u have choices when u satisfy one..
it just goes up..
me: If you look at it price-wise, it goes up.
Because the price goes up.
If you remove the price factor, it is just a web.
If you have a digital camera, you need a computer.
If you have a computer, you’ll have mp3 which means you need to have broadbandn
Ripple: not just price.. once I satisfy my physical needs.. I start looking at spiritual needs
me: satisfy physical needs?
Can you do that?
Ripple: pet bhara ho.. neend poori hui ho.. a/c laga ho..
to soch us plane mein chali jati hai..
jaise abhi ..hamare saath ho raha hai..
waise abhi bhookh lag rahi hai.
:))
me: Precisely.
Ripple: chalna hai Anadhra meals khaane
?
me: Physical needs (or sense-pleasures as they are called), can be satisfied only for a moment.
Ripple: physical comfort I should say then
me: But comfort also doesn’t have limit.
You have a house, you want a bigger one.
You have a car, you want one with power-steering and AC.
If you have that too, you want the one with bigger seats.
There is really no end.
All satisfaction of senses is momentary.
Ripple: yes we doo need that …but there are times with most people when they say.. this is it for the time being..
me: Yes. And it is only a matter of how long that ‘time being’ is.
Ripple: yes..
me: In my case, I have found that ‘the time being’ was always far shorter than I initially expected it to be.
;)
Ripple: chalna hai khaane .. Bharati ya Bhagini
?
me: Chalo. Chalte hain.
Neeche milo.
Ripple: okay….