Bhupen Hazarika a renowned singer from our state, passed away the day before yesterday.

He was a
name in himself: that greatness to encompass all within his entire being, the audacity of the soul, the
indomitable spirit: he was a man in the likes of Martin Luther king Jr., Mandela, Gandhi. This man had
the kindness and majesty in his being entwined with the power to live his destiny.
I would not say I am saddened at heart that he has left: maybe I have realized that the man never dies:
he is immortal, and for centuries on, he will be immortalized as the grand man of Assam who wanted to
bridge the divide between the rest of her neighbours and that between the rest of the nation too. I
salute this man, and as I so do, I salute all such men who remind me of his prowess, his determination,
his will power, his simplicity, his dedication and his love. This was a man who had known how to love
life, how to love his beloved, his wife, his son, his compatriots, his countrymen.despite the abuse,
despite the praise, despite lifes dualism.
If a little bit of these qualities even can be imbibed in me, I will find myself gifted, answered. Life has a
lot in store to give to each one of us, to you and to me: it is in learning to understand life better wherein
lies the secret and the key to itI have realized that the more i hate others, the more I hate myself
alone. And the more I judge others, the more I lose my love for others and for you. I am my own cause
for failure.no one else is, as I had thought before. But to love someone from the depth of your heart,
you need a lot of power to do so. That love might be for my work tooit is love all the same. And to live
this love, this life as it is, with its ugliness and its glory, its pinpricks, its pain, its heartaches and
heartbreaks is a magnanimous task in itself and it requires power that ensues right from the god who
resides in the deepest core of my heart. And this god needs no logical analysis to support its being, its
success at any task. All it need is unflinching love for the work with resolution and courage, with the
courage to be truthful, with the courage to love and feel loved, with the courage to go alone and to not
seek ideal benefaction in it, with the courage to fight the pride inherent in the ego and to rise above the
vices we have so much considered casual and okay.
I have sought my god, my shiva in all of these, in my courage, in myy acceptance, in my understanding of
myself and the world around me and in my truth that goes above all logic. And I have found him in the
worst places, in my failed moments, in my mistakes, in those qualities I had so long deemed ugly and
useless around me. I have found him in my anurag, in my sister, in my mother, in nandini, in deepika, in
my father, in arka, in bhindeo, in the shopkeeper nearby, in the most selfish of all men, and in me.
And I also know that I have to discover and re-discover the same in me here itself, while I live at home,
while I am in this place, while I am with these people whose ideas I had so much deemed as narrow and
sluggish. How much did i not see and realize that that narrowness was in me that what made me see the
same in the rest!
I will henceforth kill this evil in me in the form of fear, grief, attachment, lust and longingness for that
what is not mine.
I will give love to all from my deepest core every moment
I will encumber all thoughts and ideas of what I thought to be ensuing from other people into my entire
being
I will give every moment my best in the best way possible

My prayers to that greatness in me, as my god.
My prayers to that tinge of magnificience in me
My prayers to that courage in me
My prayers to that me in me..