*Bhagavat Gita** ? *
*19th Chapter*
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Arjun*: Hey Vasudev, how can I do the most heinous and unpardonable act of
forwarding junk mail that I receive, to my friends, relatives and revered
elders?
Krishna: Hey Paartha, at this moment, none of them is your friend or foe,
relative or in-law, young or old and good or evil. You have no escape from
following your Net-Dharma. Make haste to log on and send off the junk mail
to one and all. That is the only Karma expected of you and Dharma you must
follow.*
*Arjun: Hey Murari ! Do not implore me to do something that pricks my
conscience and stirs my soul.
Krishna: O Kunti-Puthra, you are caught in the vicious circle of the Maya.
In this material world, you are committed to no one except to yourself, your
Dharma and your mouse. Junk mails have existed for the last 25 years and
will remain long after you are gone. Rise above the Maya and perform your
bounden duty.
Arjun: Lord Krishna, pray and enlighten me on how junk mail is related to
the Maya.
Krishna: Vatsa, junk mail is the 6th element in the universe ? Aap, Vaayu,
Jal, Agni, Aakaash and Junk Mail. It is at the same time animate and
inanimate, living and dead beat. It overloads the system and fills up the
hard disk. But it serves one great purpose. It leads people to believe that
they are filling their time in an intellectual pursuit by reading and
reforwarding junk mail. It gives them a sense of achievement without
investing their intellect and efforts. Like the Atman that leaves one's
physical body and moves on to another, the junk mail moves from system to
system and never gets deleted or dies.
Arjun: Great Giridhaari, kindly tell me what the true attributes of junk
mail are.
Krishna: Neither fire can burn it, nor air can evaporate it. Neither can it
be conquered nor can it be defeated. Junk mail is omnipresent and immortal
like your noble and eternal soul. Unlike an arrow shot from your bow, many a
time the junk mail forwarded by you, will even return to you safely after
some months or even years, allowing you to re-re-forward it to the same
people.
Arjun: Great Saarathi, my salutations to you. You have opened my eyes to the
cult of junk mail. I was lost in the Maya and have been reading all the junk
mail that I keep receiving and doing no other Karma. Now on, I will just
press the "Forward" button without reading any of it and send it to all and
sundry, friends and foes, relatives and in-laws, young and old. That will
surely bring them to their knees in this epochal battle of Good against
Evil, in the Kurukshetra. *
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Krishna: Arjuna, victory or defeat is not in your hands. Do not ponder over
the fruits of your labour. Just keep forwarding junk mail and make one and
all go bananas reading it and you will have done your supreme duty.
Tathastu.*
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Thus Spoke
*Lord Krishna*
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