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Do we need to rectify our thought
process?
We say ‘truth’, and then we put ‘UN’ before it, when we want to express
what is falsehood. It means we accept the existence of truth before the absence
thereof. In Sanskrit we say ‘Satya’ for the truth and then think of its negation by calling it (the opposite) ‘Asatya.
Similarly, we accept the former existence of ‘violence’; and then, that
of the latter, as its absence called ‘nonviolence’. In Sanskrit we have the
word ‘Himsa’ for violence, then; we put a prefix to mean an opposite of
it, that is, nonviolence.
I am not an expert in evolutionary linguistics, but I can try to apply my
common sense to explain this discrepancy. Perhaps, the man, when he came into
being wanted to know where he came from, as every child does. He saw all that
had been changing in his surroundings and he also saw fellow living beings
coming into existence, growing and ceasing to exist. Whatever, little or more,
he could think after experiencing the world around him became ‘the truth’ for
him. Thus ‘the truth’ came first. Then he witnessed the death and the
destruction. He also found that he, himself, could become a cause of
destruction; and that was certainly not beneficial for him. Hence the act of
destruction by the man, the violence, came first and nonviolence followed it as
a voluntary act on his part for his own survival.
Perhaps, the early man took many things for granted. The man thought and
acted in many ways. He evolved the thought of ‘the truth’, he evolved the
thought of his ‘Dharma’ and he also evolved the conduct of nonviolence
for his survival. The man should have grown, learning the right lessons from
his life.
But the man, undoubtedly a superb creation in this world, became too
proud of his abilities. He tried to change this world physically because it
fascinated his mind that wavered with the sight of such changes; and, because
it provided ample opportunities to the man to satisfy his desires. The man
stopped exploring the truth further and refining his conduct; instead he
started deriving the fun out of his extraordinary physical abilities. He became his own slave. The thought of
collective freedom eluded him. So he suffered.
The book “IN SEARCH OF OUR WONDERFUL WORDS” begins from this point and
tries to build an environment that may, at least, provide some humble support to
its readers to think for themselves.
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[“IN SEARCH OF
OUR WONDERFUL WORDS” is my next book after “Mahatma: A Scientist of the
Intuitively Obvious”.]
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