What
does not harm is good enough. That is how we can distinguish ‘good’ from bad. A
big majority of the people in this world is poor. This could not have happened
if our forefathers had not allowed a few powerful ones to own what was not
actually rightfully theirs. If some people have just enough to eat for two
days, and a very few of them, stealthily or forcefully, corner for themselves
food for four days; it is violence. Such behavior is harmful, hence is not
good.
We can’t say much about the past with enough confidence, but
we can certainly say that most of us today, knowingly or unknowingly, are
involved with something or the other that is not good. While we are driving our
cars, we may ask ourselves as to why most people in this world cannot afford
the convenience of a car. There couldn’t have been something inherently wrong
with the ability of the most, and extraordinarily superior about a few. Just
after our births we hardly differ from each other; physically and
intellectually. We become different thereafter depending upon the opportunities
we inherit from our ancestors. Our ancestors did not create those opportunities
for us by withdrawing only that much from the nature as was rightfully due to
them for their survival according to the Divine Laws. They withdrew more for
themselves, depriving others of their Divine Rights. That was how they could
create many lucrative opportunities for us. Most among us carry the burden of
what is not harmless, that is, what is not good.
This is also true that most among us do not have the
conviction and courage to rectify the errors of the past, as we are bound by
‘social responsibilities’ that are man-made. Unfortunately, most among us are
more than convinced about our helplessness in the matter of mindlessly supporting
the injustice that prevails in our social life. We have learned particular ways
of living and conducting ourselves, and have become accustomed to it. We,
perhaps, cannot change. All intellectual arguments convincingly placed before
us and emotional appeals made to us produce not even a small ripple. Notwithstanding our ego of being superior most
living being in the entire universe, we are an entity that has completely
surrendered itself to its selfishness and greed. It surrendered itself to the
unjust world; and it, halfheartedly and pretentiously, surrenders also to the
God in whom he does not have true faith.
However, when we look around, we do find a handful of the
people who are committed to delivering some good to their immediate
surroundings to the best of their abilities. But, they suffer because their
path is very difficult, frightfully lonely and thorny. Many among them surrender
to the existing ways of life after taking only a few steps, and the good they
have been committed to, vanishes. They are also human beings like us; they do
not have enormous physical, intellectual and emotional strength. Maybe, we can
loosen the shackles of our helplessness a little and stand behind them for a
while. Maybe, they will be encouraged to move a few more steps; and we, despite
our helplessness, would have made a small contribution for the cause of the
good and the truth.
Peeping out of our shell of helplessness and scrapping off
some of our timidity to ‘empower the good’, instead of trying to defend our impotent
thoughts and poor conduct by complicating issues with a view to hiding the
truth, is also a trivial, but very
effective ‘spiritual process’. It, at least, is an admission of our sins that
purifies our souls to some extent. If one can’t fight for the truth, he should,
at least, stand behind those who fight for it.
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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