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Spirituality
does not impose any conditions on your being. It is the flowering of inner
awareness that brings you to be present in whatever is.
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| Sunny Leone Picture Courtesy: Internet |
There’s this
whole song and dance, well we can call it drama too, over Bollywood actor Sunny
Leone’s interview with CNN-IBN’s Bhupendra Chaubey. I have not seen any of
Sunny Leone’s movies nor have I dug up her footprint, as an erstwhile porn star,
online. I have also had no interest in any interview she has given up until
now. That’s when my friend BG’s story on the actor and her interview appeared
in The Hindu this morning. Now, BG’s
someone I respect a lot. And his concluding line, “…Until now, she was a
small-time actor, the interview made her a heroine.”…caught my attention. So I
googled and pulled up Chaubey’s interview with Leone and watched it. I not only
concur with BG’s perspective but I go a step further: I don’t just think Leone is gorgeous-looking, sexy if you will, I
believe she’s very, very, spiritual too.
I have no
comments to offer on Chaubey’s interviewing style or the quality and tone of
his questions. That’s his way of Life. So, my perspective here is not because I
disagree with what Chaubey asked or did, but is here because I agree with, and
can relate to, everything that Leone said. It takes an evolved person to say
that I have no regrets about the past. And Leone does not just say it, she says
it with a deep conviction. She says, “ …Everything
that I have done in my Life, has led me (in)to this seat…it’s a chain reaction
that happens…everything is a stepping stone…when you are young you make
decisions that lead you to who you are as an adult…” To me, Leone’s
interview offers an unputdownable lesson in spirituality. It left me admiring
this young lady for her ability to hold herself up with dignity, when so many
people are hell bent on judging her. Watch the full interview here:
I make no
comparisons here. But interestingly, at the recently concluded Hindu Lit for
Life event, ace photographer Raghu Rai, who was in conversation with renowned
art editor Sadanand Menon, said something very similar: “I am just a sum of all
the experiences I have been through in Life. Everything that I have done in my
Life has made me the person that I am today.” Everyone who heard Rai share with
Menon came back feeling reflective and spiritual.
And truly, that’s
all there is to Life. We all are a product of the time and the experiences we
go through. There’s nothing right or wrong about the choices we make. Each
choice leads us to another one and that one leads to yet another. And through
choosing, falling, crawling, getting up, flying and falling again, we learn to
choose better and cruise along in Life. Leone’s choice of opting to be in the porn
industry was not very different from my choice of having been a salesman early
on in my career or Rai’s choice of being a news photographer for several years.
In the end, really, no experience is a waste and no experience is bad. Each one
teaches you something, provided you are willing to learn.
As I see it,
there’s a lot I can learn from Leone. She displays humility, acceptance and a
keenness to just let things be. For instance, she says that she has neither
been “haunted” or “held back” by her past. She tells Chaubey that she does not
want to think of a future – of acting with a big star like Aamir Khan – that is
not yet born: “At this moment I don’t
know (about the future) any better.” I wish, instead of bringing a
hypocritical sense of morality into play, that people pause and reflect on
Leone’s interview for the honesty she inspires through it. That and her ability
to be who she is, celebrating herself, without any regrets of a past that is
dead and gone, and without any anxieties over an unborn future, are very
spiritual qualities. To me, those
qualities make her more spiritual – and not just sexy – than most people around
us are.
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