Chain of thoughts

Right or wrong

It's terrible to say that two weeks back I wrote about the same topic and now am again forced mentally to address this issue. My mind constantly thinks of how cruel and rude are we being to other humans. Let them be of any caste, religion or race. How could we forget that they are after all humans. You don't want to maintain a cordial relation with other caste or religion people, then it's okay. But at least don't harm them. You have no right to hurt or take their lives.

Well, by this time many of you would have heard and read about this Dalit boy been shot over prayer at UP. How does it even sound? Neither could I hear it on TV nor see it. It makes me realise that I am living a cursed life between a few inhuman people. Definitely, I would not say that everyone born in this earth are inhuman but there are many who think only about themselves, their life, their health, their rituals, their customs and care a damn about other's lives.

The minute you start thinking only about yourself, your expectations grow and this leads to anger which destroys you. What was the point in showing up your anger and aggression on the boy? Who were you to take his life?

There are only two castes in this world and mark them for your good. It is just right and wrong. The one who do the right and the others who do the wrong. The one who always thinks about others and does his job selflessly without worrying about the result is always on the right path. While the ones who don't do that and be selfish , do their job keeping in mind the result of it are always on the wrong path.

I won't say that since I am writing this article, I am a person who has been on the right path. Genuinely speaking even I have several times been selfish. I have done my job keeping in mind the result. There has been times when I have only thought about myself and not others. But it's just recently that I realised how wrong have I been in my doings. I have done all that which I shouldn't have done. But as they say, there comes a point when we realise that we are in the wrong path and so did I. Not only working on myself but now I am also sharing what I learnt to all of you. Be kind to others and remember that it's not always about you.

A few might feel that am just giving irrelevant articles and linking them to the epic Mahabharata and to all of them I would just say one thing.

I was just 17 when I first learnt the story of Mahabharata through the series which was telecasted in Star plus but it had no impact on me. Maybe my mind was filled with so much negativity and filth that I could never understand the crux behind this big epic reality. I was so into my problems that I forgot that I was not in the right direction. I ignored to make myself a better person at that time but today when I look back I feel I was so immature. I was so arrogant by never accepting my mistakes, so much filled with anger that I never tried to learn from my mistakes.

Thanks to this lock-down though, It helped me rewind and realise that I was wrong in so many places. I had been so rude to my loved ones, my anger never let me realise that what I was doing was wrong. But it's never too late to come in the right path, isn't it?

Don't do wrong and don't let anyone do it.

Be kind to all humans, and stop casteism. Remove the selfishness within you and try to be a better person. Do conduct a self analysis on yourself and find out your flaws. Sacrifice the attraction you have for your things and people. Love people but never have excessive affection for anything or anyone. There's a very thin line between love and affection. Love is the right path and affection/ attraction is the wrong path.

For instance, Love makes you say that the almighty will give my son/ daughter the best whereas affection makes you tell that I will give my son/ daughter the best in this world. So try to be a better person and make the people around you better people. In my next chapter, I will discuss more about this with an example from the epic Mahabharata.

Jai hind,