A Tale for Tomorrow

disposal of my parents for their work as educationists, I would feel revolted; this was the beginnings of Internet and I had learnt with one of my mentors to explore it on his new computer and this dream of a vast ever-expanding bank of knowledge information in every domain, ever more detailed and precise, made accessible to each and all, made me enthusiastic; that each willing person could thus have access to all branches of knowledge and develop one‟s own comprehension of the world and one‟s own cond uct accordingly, this seemed to me like a great step forward and I wanted very much to make it concrete at the earliest in my native area; one thing leading to the next, this commitment made me begin to travel until I realized that this great possibility was rapidly being seized on and monopolized by the promoters and profiteers of immediate satisfaction and communication, and the pollution that ensued led me to turn back within; it was no longer a service of the truth and progress of consciousness, but a crude exploitation; and so the need grew in me, I learnt to concentrate, I found again the validity of the call and of the prayer and, I don‟t really know how, found the presence and its action, here itself in my body and my life, like a concrete conduit, independent from people and their desires and wants – like a force of becoming, right here, and this has become my sole certitude…” And here comes Violette : “ Always I feel like I know nothing, I do learn everything I am taught, but it is nothing, I have a white skin and black hair and I am pretty and I love my kin, yet I know that I know nothing and so I go back to my

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