Ghost

Ghost

She gives a powerful example of the creative power of words. In 2011, her husband, Gautam, then CEO of Mahindra & Mahindra, passed away from cancer. For Kunti, the bottom fell out of her world. She says, “Suddenly, I did not know what to do or how to live. I knew that if I did not take a decision, default thoughts would enter my head. So I decided to live life as a celebration. At his funeral I had the visceral experience that I too had burned away with him. I decided that the new me was boundlessness, love and joy. Every morning, I would wake up and even while crying, I would affirm, ‘Who I am is love, joy.’ In three months, people were coming to me and saying, ‘I can experience love in your presence.’”

 

Indeed, our very world has been created by the power of words. Our collective understanding of who we are, the values we stand for, the culture that defines us, the civilisation we belong to, is largely a creation of words. First orally and then through the written word after the invention of the printing press, mankind has been creating and recreating itself and life through words. The worldview we inherit and that we take to be the truth has been handed down to us from society through words.