The unknown road with known address

Life signifies walking along an untravelled path. A path remains ever unknown if one does not come down on the road under the attraction of road. The road is zigzag with so many unknown turns. never being encountered earlier. Yet people come down on road because real enjoyment is felt on every footstep on the road.

 A road does not allow us to turn our life completely dried up by any sense. Experiences on the road are priceless possessions. Roads make us known so many unknowns. Roads make us known friends and foes. Roads develop our sense of amity and relationship. If we don’t come down on the road we fail to understand the grandeur of the road in ultimate majesty.

Roads make us know the meaning of life in different perspective. Roads demolish our introvert character. A road teaches us how to build up union with others shaking off all prejudices. A road is the direct witness of many events, desirable or non-desirable. If we want to have the real taste of life the role of roads is in no way to be disputed and it holds strong relevancy. A road does not belong to anyone in particular. If anyone asks a road whom it belongs to, he will receive a steady reply that I have given the proprietorship to those who walk on me.

In a missionary rally along the Central Avenue, RADDUR (the sun) and AVIPSA (wish) were walking in slogans and shouting. It was the rally against war. Both of them were walking side by side. The rally was the icon of the standing protest against brutal war and in favour of restoration of permanent peace around the globe. On that day Raddur and Avipsa were unknown to each other, but both of them were walking on with the same commitment to life. In the aftermath chapter of life mingled with many intimate moments out of common understanding they came forward further close to each other and became the life partner where feelings, sentiments and emotions acted as favourables catalysts.

There exists want and insufficiency in their life. Yet they have accommodated it smilingly. In the midst of sufferings and miseries of life they still don’t want to compromise with anything grossly contradictory to the philosophy of life. They always hold their ism aloft. They discard the concept - “The Prestige of the Left and the Privilege of the Right.” At times Raddur wants to go in search of comfort but Avipsa declines saying,” Our poverty is our pride. This poverty has turned our life spirited. The luxury of comfort is not meant for us. Poverty distills the spirit of life to purity. Don’t think too much. If I can accommodate the pain of poverty why don’t you. We are not alone in this world struggling. Think of others too. There are still men who are down to standard in comparison to us. If they can manage their poverty we can also do that. Accounting of life of maximum of us hardly reconciles. What is the sense of then to go for a tug of war in life? We don’t have any option left but to struggle with dignified prestige. I have learnt many things from you in ultimate optimism. If I ever see you in confusion it is aching to me.

Raddur becomes silent listening to the irrefutable logic and arguments of Avipsa. He can understand that their happiness, completely circumstance oriented will remain ever mute. They will have to find out the pleasure of life amidst chained struggle. He does not want to prolong his talking in return. He accepts complete silence for reorientation of his thinking. He stretches his visionary look through the small open window of the room in complete blankness.

Raddur now lives completely alone in this desolate small room round the day until Avipsa comes back from her working place in the evening. I have forgotten to tell Raddur is now physically challenged. His left leg had to go for amputation because of an accident. Since then he is confined in this room. He has to depend on crutch for walking. Self-supported Raddur has always hated dependence all along his life. So he cannot stand this crutch. It jeers at the independent and self-supported soul of Raddur. So he does not want to touch this crutch, if not compelled. Life is becoming hell to him. What else a physically challenged man can do other than to live partially at the mercy of others especially when question of psychological rapport arises? He waits eagerly when Avipsa will come back in the evening as a gush of fresh air from outside. He sees the world outside with the eyes of Avipsa. She is the only leftover oxygen in his life.

Avipsa will come late today. There is a protest rally against the recurring episodes of gang rape. She is a woman. Raddur cannot ignore her female identity. It is not a candle light rally. It is not a silent rally. He does never have any reliance in silent rally. Silence has definitely a language to protest, but silent protest can never destabilize the foundation of lumpens. They are now in full fury. They are desperately trying to ruin the peaceful environment of the society. So this critical situation demands the aggressive protest rally in slogans and shouting so that these lumpens can hide themselves in a big hole where death is the only judgment. Mind of Raddur will also walk in the rally step by step. He is eagerly waiting for Avipsa to return. He will hear the language of the rally in verbatim.

Avipsa hastily enters into the room. Sweating drops are shining as pearls on her forehead. She knows well that Raddur will be eagerly waiting for her because he is now very much vexed and annoyed with gross deterioration of moral values in society. After taking a glass of water in one breathe she sits beside Raddur and holds both of her hands in tremendous excitement and passion.

“You will not believe it, Raddur. But it is fact. I have seen Agun (fire) in the rally today. He was walking beside me. He is requesting me to move in firm steps. He was whispering to my ears in softness. He was telling me that Agun is very much in the rally. I am thrilled today.” Avipsa finishes her.

Raddur contradicts saying “How can that be? I joined personally in his funeral rally. He was brutally stabbed by the antisocial elements. Agun had a traditional assignment with good forces. He did never compromise with anything injustice or illegal. The enemies of civilization stabbed him to death in ultimate brutality. I can never forget him as he was the heartbeat of our organization. How can he come back again in the rally?”

Avipsa sits sometimes speechless as if, she is lost somewhere else. After that she starts talking slowly but in resoluteness,” It is your preaching Raddur that none can douse the loll flame of good spirit. That is called the burning funeral pyre. You are now confused, Raddur. Is there any crack in your faith what was so long standing erect with no lenience? I can’t adjust with this Raddur. My beloved Raddur holds a complete separate identity. I recognized Raddur on road. He came down on the road under the attraction of road. You are in undulation now. Think Raddur. Try to think, Raddur.”

Raddur wants to say something in self-defense.

Exciting Avipsa stops him saying. “None can extinguish the flame of fire out of immense sacrifices on greater cause. I have seen the existence of so many Aguns in the rally. They are very much rigid in protest and firm in resistance. They were the face of the rally. They were very much present in the rally. I am not afraid in any way out of any confusion. There is no death of our ism because it aims at for the well being of the oppressed and deprived class. So long the oppression and exploitation will exist in this world our ism will remain alive with its undistorted relevancy. I am encountering a breach in your confidence. How does it happen? Why does it happen? It is undoubtedly because of your stagnancy. You are now captivated in the boundary of your own. Please come down at least once on the road forgetting your physical inability. I will then get back my own Raddur who is about to be missing in the struggle of life. The society will get back the radiation of Raddur. Try to understand me. Please tear of the shackles of pessimism” – Avipsa stops after talking long nonstop out of tremendous excitement.

Raddur is now weeping. He is weeping because of realization. Avipsa allows him time to weep. She understands that Raddur is again coming back in the main stream of life shaking of his confusion. “The struggle is the ultimate spirit of life to achieve something great.” She has learnt from the experiences of life. She has come to understand that Agun has touched Raddur. This Raddur is very much known to her.

All on a sudden Raddur bursts into a wailing cry and said’” Avipsa give me back my crutch. I have hated that so long. I will again stand up on my legs. That crutch is no more the symbol of my inability. That is the crutch of my commitment. I will again walk on the road. I will crash the evil spirit to dust with the help of my crutch. It is now a new dimension in my life.”

Avipsa is now satiated. She is able to reconstruct the mental setup of a dedicated and upfront soldier in the field of long battle of life. She has got back again his Raddur in incandescent flame of fire.

It has been well understood in the run of debate between Raddur and Avipsa that Raddur is well aware of the perfect address of the road. Every road runs to reach the destination. The destination means the common objective for the well being of all. Sometimes road leads us to misdirection. It happens because of our confusion. As soon as we get back our senses road again makes us aware of our true destination. A road never plays false with a committed and dedicated soldier of life engaged in the struggle with no discontinuation. We may be confused or unnerved while walking along an unknown or untraveled road, but it is certain that even an untraveled road takes us to a known address. Avoiding the attraction of back-pulling forces of life we will have to stride ahead along the road, known or unknown no matter, to complete our missionary journey in order to emblazon life. Today is the day to take oath. Let us all sing in chorus – This earth is ours. The spokesman of the evil forces who want snatch the earth from us will never be excused by showing any proportion of softness at any length of reason. Their extinction is the source of our victory to life.