We
human beings feel much proud when we define ourselves as the living beings with
extraordinary intellect. No one calls us entities with extraordinarily large
hearts. If these were our constant prejudices, then we have ever been, living a
prejudiced life. However, human life, rather fortunately, has hardly to do
anything with the way some of us, with highly activated intellect, have ever
tried to define and analyze life.
But, everything is not well with our lives. One with some
ability to write a script should never be given the job of directing a play scripted
by someone else. In all likelihood he would ‘misdirect’ the play. People with
activated intellect have ever been siphoning out much of the beautiful essence
of our lives.
Human violence, the biggest cause of human suffering, leaves
its latent form and acquires the
potential of causing much harm only when it is backed by intellectual justifications,
whether ill-intended or not. One says;
women are not as strong as man, hence they must be taken care of; thus
justifying the violence against women. If we look at all the violence pervading
in this world, we would invariably find some intellectual argument presented to
support it. As against it a large heart can bear any amount of violence, but
would never think of causing harm to others.
The essence of life is life itself, not destruction. The
natural human form is that of love, compassion, dutifully acting to make his surroundings
happy, and making sacrifices to preserve the beauty of life and the nature. The
man satisfies his creative urge through selfless service of his surroundings.
The man tries to be complete in his life through his efforts in fulfilling what
is incomplete in and around him. If he finds that he is not receiving what he
must receive from his life, he must deactivate his intellect and rejuvenate his
heart.
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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