Flashes continue to occur and
re-occur from the first when as a 3 yrs. old child (1958) my mother,
grandfather, another person and I got down from a brown Ford Prefect and walked
to Jaipur Central Jail carrying breakfast for my father and his colleagues at
the bar, who were detained for protesting against the abolition of High Court
Bench at Jaipur. Justice K.N. Wanchoo, the than Chief Justice of Rajasthan had
some perceptions and agenda to settle and that had led to the abolition of the
Jaipur Bench. The next flash is getting down at Rai-ka-bagh Railway Station at
Jodhpur with bag and baggage, as my father than an advocate in the High Court,
had to shift with the family leaving the parental house at Jaipur to his
Highness Flats opposite zoo. 57 years thereafter are flashes of a wonderful and
incredible break at a beach resort in Kerala and the release of ‘Supreme Court
on Arbitration and Contract’ last evening, January 9, 2015 at Indian Law
Institute.
As I had continued to observe my paternal
grandfather, Rao Bahadur Madho Prasad Gupta, in whose company I spend my
childhood, enquiring into beyond and leading an extremely disciplined life far
away from the mundane and the ephemeral and hear all the stories and read all the
books, it dawned that realization of the Self is the true and ultimate goal of
the existence. It also emerged that it was imperative that all events shall
continue to come into existence and give way to the new, the very next moment,
with the sole objective of making one consciously aware of the truth, that
bliss was the nature of the Self and the Cosmic divine and that is beyond
lateral time.
As I continued to observe my
maternal grandfather, Dr. A.C. Bansal, a highly respected socialite at Agra, with
a life full of spirit and freedom, a strong wish had evolved to serve the
fellow beings by joining the medical profession, which continued to consciously
and unconsciously dominate the core system till one day it became apparent that
there existed an interplay of forces in chartering the life events as they
would continue to arise according to their own mandate and I surrendered to
them.
On August 1, 1976 I found myself in
the corridors of Supreme Court of India and the most powerful intellectuals
that existed in the nation. I continued to relentlessly contribute my very best
for next 27 years to the profession and evolved with every case and social
issue I dealt with, as a better human being in search of truth and justice. It continued
to bring about understanding of the nuances of social, economic and political fabric
and structuring, being constantly stitched and un-stitched. A feeling continued
to air around that it will be possible to follow the footsteps of my father
Justice D.P. Gupta, who retired as Chief Justice of High Court of Rajasthan,
with the highest integrity, honesty, uprightness and honor. 12 years further, windows
have continued to close and open again and again, beings have continued to walk
in and walk out and walk in again, events have continued to come into existence
and dissolve by its very nature to give way to the new.
Sixty years of lateral existence has not
made me wiser to determine in the true sense, the little personal requirements and
the grand social status, the deep inner peace and the magnificent collective recognition,
the calm deep unchanging vibes and the charged public passions. There has been
a constant awareness of the divine cosmic energy existing blissfully within unaffected
by the constant movement of fleeting events all around. This awareness of the twin
existence has continued to co-exist simultaneously in a quantum way every
moment of my existence, for quite some time now. All exists here and now every
moment. There is constant awareness of energies which have continued to exploit
and damage the peace and harmony within and around, but there is also perception
of divine cosmic energy and light workers relentlessly working to establish peace, love and eradicate poverty. The real contribution seems to be
to create powerful legal structures to resolve some of the conflicts or open
the conflicts by exposing their true nature, to be resolved in times to come, for
a better tomorrow…
