Tug of the moral Lure of the immoral

Read this carefully, I got this from the book of the one of the most controversial .
Figure now a days, these are hi s views on great epic Mahabharata. Even hi s own books
masterpiece but what' s use of i t when he hi m sel f coul dn' t understand what he wrote. Trapped
between tug of the moral and lure of the immoral . Book gave him many awards due to hi s
beautiful writing ski l l s but he cant work on it last. But the great m oral thriller al so orders
us to rage against karma and its despotic dictates. It teaches us to subvert i t. To change it. It
tell s us we al so write out our next lives as we live out our present.
The Mahabharata is not a work of religious instruction. It is much greater. It is a work of art. It
understands m en will always fall in the shifting chasm between the tug of the m oral and the
lure of the immoral It is in this shifting space of incertitude that m en become men. Not
animals, not gods.
It understands truth is relative. That it is defined by context and motive. It encourages the
noblest of m en - Yudhishtra , Arjuna, Lord Krishna himself - to li e, so that a greater truth
m ay be served. It understands the world is powered by desire. And that desire is an unknowable
thing. Desire conjures death, destruction, distress. But al so creates love, beauty, art. It is our
greatest undoing. And the only reason f or al l doing. And doing is l i f e. Doing is karma. Thus
it forgives even those who desire intemperately . It forgives Duryodhana. The man who desires
without pause. The m an who precipitates the war to end al l wars. It grants him paradise and
the admiration of the gods. In the desiring and the doing this most reviled of m en fulfils the
mandate of m an. You must know the world before you are done with it. You must act on
desire before you renounce i t. There can be no merit in forgoing the not known. The greatest
book i n the world rescues volition from religion and gives it back to man.
Religion is the disciplinarian fantasy of a schoolmaster. The Mahabharata i s the joyous song of
l i f e of a maestro.
In its tales within tales it takes religion f or a spin and skins it inside out. Leaves it puzzling
over its own poisoned follicles It gives m en the chance to be splendid. Doubt-ridden architects
of some small part of their lives. Duryodhanas who can win even as they lose. . . . By Tarun
Tejpal , Alchemy of desire.
Yes you read it correctly, this is by tejpal the one who is behind bars on molestation charges. It
is true Man is al ways f al l in the shifting chasm between the tug of the
m oral and the lure of the immoral .