What
may be easy for you may not be easy for others. What may be interesting for you
may not interest others. What may be pleasing to you may not please others. We
come from different backgrounds, are brought up in different ways, speak
different languages and have gone through different experiences. We cannot make
ourselves look like others; similarly, we cannot expect others to look like us.
We and the others may be different in many ways.
However, we, as well as the others, do not like harming each
other. Still, we often harm others, knowingly or unknowingly. We are never sure
of what could benefit us, but, whenever we suspect any harm to us, we act. We
act quickly and without thinking much about what might have caused the harm.
The fear of being harmed overrules everything, supersedes everything.
Fear has never guided, it always misguides. When we are
afraid of some harm that may be caused to us, we act indiscriminately and may
cause harm to others. When we harm others, for whatever reasons, we set into
motion a chain reaction. A chain reaction, that converts a harmless state of the
human mind into an agitated and violent state; and then, the violence pervades.
Fear is a natural reaction of all living beings when their
survival is at stake. Fear persists in animals till the cause of the fear is
eliminated or they, themselves, are eliminated. By removal of the one, the
cause of danger or the endangered, the violence is also eliminated. Human
beings are intelligent beings. They can investigate into the causes of
suspected harm to them and eliminate the cause of fear first, and then the
cause of the suspected harm; knowing full well that more often than not, the
fear is of the unknown. Poor animals are, the less intelligent beings; the
emotion of fear may persist with them. This cannot and should not be the case
with human beings.
The theory of harmlessness and nonviolence ensured with the management
of unfounded fear uniformly applies to all; right from the weakest and poorest
of the unemployed laborer to the richest and most powerful of the nations. Anybody can experiment with it in real life
and convince himself.
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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