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insult cannot physically prevent us from acting in the way we want to act; it
can, in no way, prevent us from thinking what we want to think about. One
cannot be insulted, unless the one permits oneself to feel insulted.
Most of our deeds are not fully backed by the thoughts that
have been certified by our inner voices that we often fail to listen to. We are
accustomed to using our decisive intellect and our mind that is under the
influence of the external world our ego and our desires that again, have
everything to do with the physical world we live in. We are rarely fully behind
our thoughts and deeds, which make us, stealthily or otherwise, keep peeping
out of the window of our body-mind complex to ensure that everything is fine
with our physical self.
Those who live lowly lives and cause harm to others to
fulfill their selfish desires are not the subjects of this discussion, because
they are so much in control of their selfish desires that insults and
humiliations, either do not affect them, or make them react with more vengeance.
We are concerned about those people who think and try to act
to remedy the pains of those in difficulty and distress. In fact, there is no
dearth of such compassionate people in this world; but, they often give up
their efforts as soon as their benevolence and human nature is suspected to be
guided by some selfish motive and they are jeered by the selfish and unkind
mortals generally found in huge majority. That is one of the biggest reasons,
which weakens human efforts to do good to the humanity.
The one who develops a great inner urge to remedy the pains
of those who are in pain, but fails to respond to it by dedicating his mind,
body and words for this purpose suffers humiliation by his inner self throughout
his life. This humiliation is real; hence must be avoided. The jeering and
insults suffered from the external world, characterized by selfishness, violence
and the deceit is not real; it is only what we imagine, because our mind is a
toy with which this world full of much gloom, entertains itself.
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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