This thought struck me when i was seeing the movie Da Vinci Code.
Its the climax scene, before departing Robert Langdon(Tom hanks) talks to Sophie Neveu(the lead female character), he tells her about his childhood incident, he tells her about how he fell in a well and remained there all through out the night without anyone to rescue and he tells her when he lost all his hope, he prayed like this atlast "Jesus save me, i want to see my parents, i want to go home....." and so on and he was rescued at last. In that scene they discuss about whether Jesus is a god or a man. And Robert langdon agrees that he does not know the truth, he doesn't know whether Jesus is a god or a man, but he tells her about this incident and the prayer he did at that moment when there was no other hope at all.
When i was seeing this scene suddenly another scene from an old tamil movie came in my mind its a very old tamil film and muthuraman(a famous tamil actor) played the lead role in that movie and in that movie he is an atheist. All through the movie he remains an atheist. In the climax the hero meets with an aircraft accident and escapes it. He gets admitted in a hospital and he tells his wife like this "Aircraft engine fault aagiduchu pilotala yedhuvum panna mudiyala, enga irundhum udhavi kedaika vaipum illai, kadaisiya airacraft tharaya noki vilumpodhu, naan kadaisiya enna nenacihen theriyuma "kadavuley enna kapathu"
Translated "When the engine failed the pilot couldnt control the plane and there was no way to get any help from anywhere and atlast when the plane was falling to the ground the last thought in my mind was "Oh God Save Me"
It was an old tamil movie which came in 60s or 70s, and Da Vinci Code is a recent movie, this tamil movie was directed by some one in india, and this english movie was directed by some one in US some 4000 miles away but the concept of faith lies the same. Not only in the movies even in the real life in some situation when there is no hope at all, when there is no one there to rely upon, ultimately, let it be a believer or non believer, our mind goes for god.
So God is Faith or Faith is God ???!!!!!!
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Westerners prefer the one fixed point of view, while Easterners prefer the multiple points of view.
Jai Hind
In our highly feudal society,it is very unlikely for two well educated persons to be real frens irrespective of the caste, more the difficult if they come from the same caste :)
I really recommend you to read autobiographies/biographies of two great nationalists from Tamilnadu, " Ukkirapandi Muthuramalingam Thevar" and "Sri Vethathiri Maharishi".
One for his irreplacable contributions in the field of politics {not just communal, state but even national politics & spiritualism (Desa Bhakti)} and one for his life long contribution and mammoth humantarian work in the field of spirituality and oriental science/art.
(No need to even mention about another nationalist and our Great Leader "Kamaraj Kumarasami Nadar").
Truth Alone Triumphs :)
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