Breaking One's Tusk
Continuing my explorations to make sense of Ganesha's scribing of Mahabharata
Dear Friends,
Greetings from Hyderabad! I received a lovely email from a friend after I wrote on Ganesha yesterday. I want to further explore this symbolism as I perceive it.
What does it mean to break one’s own tusk to write?
Ask any writer and they will tell you. Writing sometimes feels like play and sometimes feels as nerve wracking as cooking a noodle soup out of your own veins.
One reason why I write this newsletter is it helps me practice yoga in writing. Not just in this newsletter ostentatiously titled, “Dharma and Dharmasankata”. But elsewhere as well.
Today, at a time, when writing has become an extremely powerful force multiplier, nothing can be more liberating than using writing as a tool of self-discovery.
Today, at a time when the entire fabric of our digital lives are revolving around the status we are cultivating through various means, writing for yourself can be a gift to go beyond one’s status/ reputation and discover something more meaningful.
When you write for yourself, you discover that 'you' are a 'verb' and not a 'noun’ as it often seems.
My first seven years of my blogging life were in pursuit of trying this style of writing and the next five years were in pursuit of doing this alongside the usual suspects behind writing online: building careers, making money, cultivating relationships etc.
Over the past few months, I have been wanting to design a writing course around self-discovery. I call it “Yoga of Writing”. The design of this course currently looks like this.
Most writing courses start from “Why Write” and directly jump onto the final step: Build your personal monopoly. I feel writing is extremely rewarding when you leverage writing to discover “Who am I” ? and “where am I?”
I will be writing further on this and hopefully should kickstart a small cohort of seekers who are interested in exploring writing as a joyous means to discover oneself.
Who said that breaking one’s tusk to write has to always be painful?
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