The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Monday 28 April 2014

OSKAR SCHINDLER TELLS US..

Oskar Schindler (April 28, 1908 - October 9, 1974)

Today is the birth anniversary of Oskar Schindler, the Nazi party member and a German industrialist who saved thousands of Jews (the 1200 Schindlerjuden or the 'Schindler Jews' in his factories and their over 8000 descendants now), from Hitler's concentration camps and gas chambers. 


The movie Schindler's List is a milestone event in telling us the larger-than-life humanitarian side of Oskar Schindler who initially thought of and made quick money by manipulating the Jew resources and manpower in the Nazi ghettos for Jews. 

Oskar Schindler tells us the 'good in us' is certainly more powerful and is as universal as the evils like Nazism or Fascism. 



It just needs its spark. Realizing it is individual. Schindler could realize it. Countless others couldn't. And this prospect about 'good' and 'bad' sides of humanity is timeless. 

This final scene from the movie directed by Steven Spielberg is a moving tribute to the Man and to the 'good' side of being a human being, to the 'good' in all of us. 

©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIp_8RNNX4k 

The conversation as filmed in the movie, as sourced from IMDB:


Oskar Schindler: I could have got more out. I could have got more. I don't know. If I'd just... I could have got more.

Itzhak Stern: Oskar, there are eleven hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them.
Oskar Schindler: If I'd made more money... I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I'd just...
Itzhak Stern: There will be generations because of what you did.
Oskar Schindler: I didn't do enough!
Itzhak Stern: You did so much.
[Schindler looks at his car]
Oskar Schindler: This car. Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people.
[removing Nazi pin from lapel]
Oskar Schindler: This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern. For this.
[sobbing]
Oskar Schindler: I could have gotten one more person... and I didn't! And I... I didn't!