Shankara's "Neti, Neti" applied to Films & Cricket

As Jane Austen would say, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that" Indians are crazy about Films & Cricket. But they undergo an identity crisis when talking about these passions. The following have to  be emphasised when talking about Films.

1. They are not the Producer to talk about the money made by the film.

2. They are not the Director to remark on how the film had to be made.

3. They are not the actors to decide on how it had to be acted.

They are only the Viewers who pay to watch the film & presumably enjoy it. Period.

In the case of Cricket, again,

1.They are not the Selectors to comment on the team selection.

2.They are not the Captain to remark on the tactics on the field.

3.They are not the Coaches to brief the players.

They are only Viewers who pay to go to the stadium (or watch on TV) to enjoy the game & nothing else! Period.

So instead of wearing the masks of others, holding fast to our identity as viewers only will help us to enjoy the film or the game as Shankara advised against identifying with the body or senses but identify as the soul, in order to obtain Self-Realisation.

This is also the starting point of both Ramana Maharshi & Sophie Amundsen. Whereas Ramana Maharshi went on to become a realised soul after asking himself "Nan Yaar?" (Who am I? in Tamil), Sophie Amundsen, a fictional 14 year Norwegian schoolgirl, received a mail asking "Who are you?" in Jostein Gaarder's best selling book on Western Philosophy, disguised as a Detective Novel, & got an interesting course on the subject.