T. F. O. C. D.

Touch -Feet

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

I didn't know that I didn't know!

From the childhood, I was always told to touch the feet of elders like Parents the guests and the Guru who would come to my home. I also had never tried to see its significance any. However, sometimes I would obey this order or the suggestion given to me and sometimes I ignored too though unintentionall. I couldn't see that my such behavior might have annoyed my parents and those elders who felt offended by my this attitude and possibly might have thought about me that I was kind of an arrogant, disobedient and a impolite boy.

Sometimes I would touch their feet but I  never thought if it was just a custom  or there was some deeper significance in doing this. In this way for so many years, even before 2 days ago I never realized - "I didn't know  that  I didn't Know!"

I'm not unnecessarily complicating the matter but would like to explain that a couple of days ago a stranger insisted for touching my feet. I politely told him that I don't like this practice of touching feet of any true or so-called spiritual great or any such saintly, religious person. Still he didn't even budge a bit.

Then I told him -

See, I don't think I am such a respectable, such a great person who deserves to be given this honor.

He didn't care my words, and said -

You can't stop me from letting me touch your feet!

I was quite disgusted.

Aghast and in a quandary.

The next day I told someone who could help me, listen to me and let this matter be solved.

But so far, I have been trying to avoid him all the time.

But really I was terribly frightened.

I was also furiously angered.

I could see, deeply feel, how this practice is being kept, maintained, strengthened and glorified, by the so-called spiritual and / or religious people, and how it has become such a powerful tool in their hands to exploit emotionally the meek and the gullible people in this way and for so long.

But now I have no hesitatation any and I frankly tell to all those who want to keep in touch with me that I'm totally against this practice. If someone wants to see me, to keep in touch with me, he or she  can just say "hello!", maybe with folded hands, and I too will reciprocate in the same manner with saying "Namaste" or "PraNAma".

But so far, I couldn't have been able to reconcile with and understand this idea!

I can happily pay obeisance to an image of some God in a temple and prostrate at His feet too, but not before any human who I'm not sure of if he really deserves this treatment!

(The ignorance of ) - 

Not knowing of 

The Not knowing! 

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