The discovery of a Friend... an Experiment!

Absolute Delight...Always.

Aim: To discover a true friend amidst the multitude of acquaintances.

Motivation: “You are shaped by the company you keep; a piece of iron turns to rust if it joins with air and water. Iron glows and takes on useful shapes if it enjoys the company of fire” -Sathya Sai.

Theory:  Perceptions, as colours, are a result of a transitional phenomenon. A rain drop on its journey from skies to sands produces the rainbow which neither the oceans below nor the clouds above are capable of. Similarly, since we travel in the transient zones of a wandering mind and oscillate between the good, bad and the ugly we too generate thoughts and notions that distinguish us, program our paradigms, choose whom to be trusted and whom to avoid.

Apparatus: Light can penetrate darkness and not the other way round. You can create light not darkness, for darkness doesn’t exist on its own; it is merely the absence of light. Therefore, a healthy conscience with ample discrimination is recommended for realizing the results of this pseudo-technical venture.

Precautions:  It is a difficult art and the seasoned can falter too, as the experiences are random and guised beyond recognition and life is a game not played by the rule book.

Results: "Only those deserve the name of friends who help in uplifting life, cleansing the mind, elevating emotions and strengthening resolves. Those who drag you into pomp, pedantry, paltry entertainment and petty pranks are enemies not friends. Friends cannot be won by social status, financial squander mania, outer scintillations and verbal assertions. Look into the very soul, the inner motives, the deeper aspirations and achievements, and then, yield your loyalty to such" - Sathya Sai

Annexure:  Shakespeare’s thoughts in the voice of Lord Polonius.
                   (Hamlet- Act I, Scene III)

"... And these few precepts in thy memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment...”