THE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
Shiva, who loved his fellow men and the elementals would never ever allow them to cast servile titles on themselves, he insisted they were Ganas, The friends. Despite their devout feelings for Him, He always regarded his followers as that- friends , and loved them with the passion of a fellow in arms, in so doing, ushering in a vibrant camaraderie.
So many times when any of them went overboard with their emotion and actually asked for an eternal enslavement at his feet, He asked them to see Him as a friend instead. “ You are my Ganas”, He would always insist. He repeated this to them till the time they began to love the word Gana for themselves, and smiled proudly ’I am a Shiv Gana’ which, was very much what Shiva wanted. So too, it was that the council functioned as a Republic, a totally consensus based machinery, “Conference and consensus with all parts is the essence of Gantantra” He told them.
So many times when any of them went overboard with their emotion and actually asked for an eternal enslavement at his feet, He asked them to see Him as a friend instead. “ You are my Ganas”, He would always insist. He repeated this to them till the time they began to love the word Gana for themselves, and smiled proudly ’I am a Shiv Gana’ which, was very much what Shiva wanted. So too, it was that the council functioned as a Republic, a totally consensus based machinery, “Conference and consensus with all parts is the essence of Gantantra” He told them.
“Gantantra?” Asked the elementals with eyes wide in awe, much in the childlike spirit that Shiva loved.
“Yes, the circle of the friends and Co wayfarers”, he said. “People sometimes have such ambitious ideas about Republics”, he looked skywards, “ that they forget the simplest laws of all, our weave in this Universe begins with our own childhood playmates, our neighbours, our village brothers, kinsmen, tribe, and then we may talk of Niyati,the lofty cosmostatic balance. It is how it should be”,He would say with the same Divine authority, “One who has any knowing of the interplay of love,will know that it does not allow for servility”.
“Yes, the circle of the friends and Co wayfarers”, he said. “People sometimes have such ambitious ideas about Republics”, he looked skywards, “ that they forget the simplest laws of all, our weave in this Universe begins with our own childhood playmates, our neighbours, our village brothers, kinsmen, tribe, and then we may talk of Niyati,the lofty cosmostatic balance. It is how it should be”,He would say with the same Divine authority, “One who has any knowing of the interplay of love,will know that it does not allow for servility”.
So it came to be, that the Ganas loved their uncrowned King as the best friend.
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