An
individual, a nation or a race becomes a slave due to its weaknesses, a few or
many. The slaves are constantly reminded of their weaknesses by their clever
and cruel masters to keep their morale down to ensure that they can never
collectively think about their strengths, lest they summon enough courage to
shatter the chains of slavery to become free.
Prolonged
periods of slavery convince a slave that everything about him is lacking in
quality, negative and mean, making him unfit to be independent and free. As a result, if and when, at any
time and due to any reasons, a slave is set free to manage his affairs himself,
he finds himself unable to make use of his strengths and whatever is positive
about him to live an independent and honorable life. Further, even the presence
of their erstwhile masters, with increased strengths because of having
exploited the slaves, living in the same world in which the slaves of the past
live continue to indirectly remind the slaves of their inferiority, real or
imaginary. Often, the masters of the past, shrewdly and cunningly, continue to
take advantage of all the half-hearted efforts of their erstwhile slaves.
The
history is full of instances, when some nations, races, castes or creeds who,
partially or wholly, were forced to live like slaves of the powerful
exploiters. The Indians and many other nations like India that have suffered
because of having served as slaves to the powerful oppressors in the past, can
fully understand, intellectually and emotionally, how penetrating the slavery
is. They understand that physical independence is just not enough to live
honorably and enjoy real freedom. It is just that the prolonged slavery has
made them forget about their inherent strengths and all that had ever been
positive about them. The remedy is to develop a collective faith in one’s
strength and the entire positive that we all inherit as human beings.
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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