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rags༄༽'s avatar

The way you’ve captured the ache of tenderness with such profound generosity is truly beautiful, Pathik Bhai. Thank you for being a translator of these complex waters we all are giddying through.

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Thanks Bhai! Just putting efforts of anti-drowning in these waters 😅

Kritika Shukla's avatar

Wow, so beautiful! 🌱

Palakshi sharma's avatar

I'm a strong believer of what you have explained here but i always thought that its an original thought in my head. but great articulation and use of examples! commendable work!!😊

pathik's avatar

consciousness to collective consciousness!

Pluviophile's avatar

Wow, Pathik ji.

What a wonderful articulation! Would never be able to comprehend such a profound thought, if you would have not written this easy with strong logical arguments. Our desire for having a parent figure will never (I think) leave us, till the day we put off our bags of responsibilities and negotiate with the non- negotiable deadline.

Harshita's avatar

Your essay found me at the right time. It reminded me of a passage from I Who Have Never Known Men, which I finished last night:

"Sometimes, I used to sit under the sky, on a clear night, and gaze at the stars,

saying, in my croaky voice: ‘Lord, if you’re up there somewhere, and you

aren’t too busy, come and say a few words to me, because I’m very lonely

and it would make me so happy.’ Nothing happened. So I reckon that

humanity – which I wonder whether I belong to – really had a very vivid

imagination."

It felt like a literary echo of your argument about our tendency to keep searching for a parental presence beyond ourselves.

pathik's avatar

that passage you referred to actually feels like an ancestor of this essay...

but what an interesting correlation this can be as well... to think of - the observer men and how they controlled their subjects... and the entity mentioned here as well...

इशिता आसवानी's avatar

This is so well worded amd profoundly beautiful 🌻

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शुक्रिया! 🪻

Neeraj Pandey's avatar

Solid.

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🤝🏻🤝🏻

Charu Gautam's avatar

wow Pathik wow

sylviasdaughter's avatar

Found this one in my gmail a few minutes ago. The title pulled me in while The Burning Ghat by Rishab kept playing on loop. This article has come into my life at an important juncture and it definitely stirred something in me. An understanding about dependency and the cause of anger that comes along when one sees the figure of dependency slipping away. There is no higher being to hold on to and I do not have any idea as to how to move forward. I wish there existed a God the way people talk about and defend that supernatural being. Towards the end of the article, I got emotional. I really appreciate the part where you tell us what this article was supposed to be and how it changed its course. It is an honour to get to read this piece by you on a platform like Substack.

Pathik, I wish you a kinder world.

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thank you for reading and connecting with this piece so generously... 🌻