Subramanya Bharathiyar & the Wachowski brothers (or) How Bharathiyar saw the Matrix!

Its pretty interesting when thoughts interlink, one idea connects to another, making a correlation of totally unrelated stuffs.

Subramanya Bharathi, one of the greatest poets of India who wrote in Tamil, wrote this poem - "Nirpathuve, nadappathuve, parappathuve..". This is one of his best poems according to me. This song also comes in his Tamil movie biography "Bharathi" (produced by my favorite Tamil writer Sujatha, on behalf of Media Dreams pvt. Ltd.). Watch this beautiful song with Ilayaraja's music here.

Bharathiyar addresses all the animals, birds, trees and in general, the Nature, and questions the very existence of all of them. He doubts if everything that his eyes see, everything he listens, even what he thinks, are all nothing but imagination. That which does not exist. He feels everything around him is like the oasis. Appears to be real but does not really exist. He suspects that the whole world could be an illusion. Ultimately, in a highly philosophical tone,  he doubts his own existence is just a dream. He doesn't believe he belongs to this world in which his feet arr firmly set. Or at least, appears to be set.

Several decades later, in far future, while working as an underworld hacker-programmer, Neo got the same doubt. He doubted the world in which he lives. He 'felt' he did not belong here. It was only after Morpheus opened his eyes up that he realized he was inside a fictional, programmed, unreal world of The Matrix. The Wachowski brothers who created the Matrix franchise have thought along the same lines as Subramanya Bharathi. No denying the fact that the core idea is one of the basic theories in Hindu philosophy. But this comparison seems interesting (for me!). You might find it ridiculous but I see some logic in this. In case you still find it ridiculous and want to hit me you can't do that. Because of the simple fact that it is not "the me" who wrote this, which is simply because I don't exist. And you can't hit me also because you don't exist too.

Hello, non-existing, fictional, fellow dreamer!


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