oh kaalia, I read your mind?

I have no clue but a colleague suddenly turns up on gtalk and knows I blog and reads it regularly. One day we were having a conversation on my earlier blog. I thought it merited being reproduced here. For sake of everyone around I hide ID. No one really knows who is searching for what tehse days and what can be used against / for you. So in spite of a willing bakra I have decided to withhold ID. But thank you for this conversation and think for encouraging me to write. It does means a lot. Some day Jispa might read all this and smile. Mission Accomplished.

This is about the kaalia blog and if you read this you will understand the meaning of that vague blog. I had meant to write the meaning of this someday but would have forgotten if not for this conversation with this colleague.

--id withheld--: hey do you have 2 minutes
jaimit: i have
but not for you
--id withheld--: :(
okay 1 min
for me#
jaimit: ok done.. only for BD
--id withheld--: whst the hell is o kaalia i read your mind..
jaimit: abhi bol?
heheheheheheheheh
hahhahahahahaha
hohohohohohoh
--id withheld--: i got a headache thinking abt it
jaimit: it is a philosophy
do you really wanna know?
--id withheld--: enlighten me o great one
jaimit: hahahha
ok.. its is from a amarchitrakatha story
--id withheld--: go on...
jaimit: once a fellow sees someone tell a poem to the king
the king gives him gold. seeing this our hero decides to write poetry himself
his wife tells him to get inspiration
so he thinks and thinks
then he gets tired and is fed up of his wife's taunt
so he goes to the lake and tries to drown
the lake has cold water
he starts shivering
he thinks it must be inpiration and then tries heis hand at [poetry
the only thing he sees is a crow
the crowis dipping his beak in the water and sharpening
he then coins the wrds "you dip it in the water and sharpen it again and again ... o kalia i read your mind
then he goes to the king
he tells this to the king
the darbar is silent
the king thinks that no one comes to my court and gives silly gyan.. this must be some deep meaning behind it
so he keeps the man with the gaurds an d spends some days thinking about it.
one day in the morning the king is about to get his beard shaved by the rooyal barber.
the barber is sharpening his blade....
the king to himself remarks
"you dip it in the water and sharpen it again and again... o kaalia i read your mind'
while he says it absent mindedly the barber thinks he is telling him
the barber puts down his blade and asks the king for forgiveness
the king wonders what is going on..
the barber confesses - i was given a bribe by the neighborhood kingdom to kill you... but you already know of my intention...
i am kaalia the barber... i am sorry
--id withheld--: aha
jaimit: so the king feels that the man who wrote the poem is no ordinary man
but actually a prophet
the man goes home with a lot of money
his wife is surprised and happy to see him
" you dip it in the water and sharpen it again and again... o kaalia i read your mind"
there - now you know
the fun thing is that my bro and sis know of the story and the line
and almost no one else
so whenever we say it none understands but we know the gibberish for its worth - gibberish
so we laugh and laugh and the other guy wonders what is so funny
that makes us laugh again.
--id withheld--: aha..
jaimit: hahahahahah
hohohoho
hehehehhe
--id withheld--: this is a good one
jaimit: yes it is
and extremely irritating of you don’t know what
--id withheld--: will try it on a few friends
jaimit: hahahhaahha
and its not even there on the internet
--id withheld--: i wanted to catch hold of you on sunday so i know what the hell it is
jaimit: the only thing that comes up if you search for it is --- guess what?
--id withheld--: what?
jaimit: MY BLOG!!!!!
--id withheld--: ha ha ha
jaimit: why you wanted to catch me on sunday?
--id withheld--: to know what the hell this meant
jaimit: what did you think
some deeeeeeeep meaning/
--id withheld--: absolutely not!
jaimit: on a philosophical level - it actually stands for something
--id withheld--: Jaimit=deep meaning is not possible
jaimit: heheheheh
i love you for hating me
--id withheld--: yes... why not!
jaimit: it is a prophetic kind of phrase
it shows that people take meaning from what is relevant to them
even the stupidest of things hold meaning and value
--id withheld--: trust you to actually give meaning to something like that...
jaimit: have you read the KRA ISE that company sends out
--id withheld--: attempted to.. but never succeeded
to read KRA Ise
jaimit: sometimes i put in nonsense words in the copy
words that mean nothing
but none ever finds out
they get their meaning out of it
including the top to the bottom most employee
you must have read my blogpost where brahma says ' da'
--id withheld--: yes
jaimit: do you remember it?
--id withheld--: i never understood what that meant
jaimit: remember it
--id withheld--: and then something about da da dum or something like that
jaimit: no..
--id withheld--: i do remember the brahma says da thing
jaimit: and the different people, gods and asuras think differently what it means
they get their meaning from it
--id withheld--: yes..
trying to find the damn thing
jaimit: http://jaimit.blogspot.com/2009/06/da-email.html
got it
--id withheld--: ah yes
it was quite nice
now i remember
jaimit: like the nonsense i write for my daughter
--id withheld--: i remembered your little poem in the end
jaimit: she likes it for it is
--id withheld--: so do i :)
jaimit: one could like it for it can be
Dum chik chick bum bumWhat a funny bum bumWhy have you bum bumWhen there is only one bumDum chik chick bum bum
--id withheld--: ha ha
jaimit: it is actually a philosophy question
why do you need two when you need one
--id withheld--: oh dear lord!
jaimit: there is a reason why the spelling of chik is different - chick and chick
chik
--id withheld--: because a chick has one bum
jaimit: no no
--id withheld--: ha ha
then why
jaimit: there are two - bum bum
otherwise the question will be
why two bum bum and why two chick chick
now the only question is that chick and chik is different but bum bum is two
when there is only one bum why two?
--id withheld--: all the very best to Jispa
jaimit: you read that piece on bob dylan
--id withheld--: yes
that was nice
i had just heard th song that day
jaimit: people were thinking too much into the peorty
--id withheld--: so good coincidence
jaimit: what is that answer in the wind
there isnt too much beyond it..
all he is saying is that the answer is in the wind.. simple
but we cant understand it - it can be that simple
--id withheld--: yes sometimes people want complicated answers
jaimit: i purposely like giving innocuously simple lines
those that can twisted into complication
--id withheld--: things too simple sometimes hold no value for people
jaimit: but they really do mean nothing more than what they are
ecjactly
--id withheld--: :)
jaimit: the meaning is - there is no meaning but there could be....
if you want it so be it!
--id withheld--: hmmm....
jaimit: i am thinking about putting this conversation on the blog

kaalia management

I have a new technique in management. MPF - Management by Poker Face. Whenever the kids come to me asking for help on a certain issue, I am going to just maintain the same face. Poker face. I did that a few times already. They come with a problem, they look at me, don’t get reaction, they walk away with an answer in their head. It’s that simple. No use of any subliminal techniques, no ESP, nothing. Just keep on doing what you were doing. Don’t ignore. Just keep the poker face. Don’t show any reaction. That’s it. people will magically grow up. They suddenly come to you less often. They take more decisions themselves. Things happen. Taking charge happens. Wow…

The next technique I want to apply is kaalia management. Whenever anyone comes to me with an issue I will simply look at the person squarely in the eye… hold it for a second… gaze upwards and say “you dip in the water and sharpen it again and again… o kaalia, I read your mind”. That’s it. Then turn away look somewhere else, walk away, type away. I think the key is the way you say it. It must sound profound enough. I am going to try this often. “.”
Do not take this portentous line lightly (I just learnt that word; I hope I am using it rightly. It means ominously prophetic). There is deep wisdom and reference from where I learnt it as an eight year old. My brother and sister burst out laughing every time I use it. We get hysterical and everyone around us fails to see the prophecy hidden within the line.

I will let you know what happens when I start using the kaalia technique to management.

Oh but you really do want to know what exactly the line means. Well here “you dip it in the water and sharpen it again and again… o kaalia, I read your mind”