What
is our major concern? To strengthen the good things by exploring and
identifying them; or dealing with all the bad that surrounds us?
Perhaps, very few among us have been taught and trained to
come face to face with this query. No doubt, most of us are educated to
distinguish between socially acceptable and not acceptable conduct in day to
day life. In fact, there and several agencies that are perpetually functional
to educate us in this regard, viz. families, schools and colleges, the
organizations we work with, the governments, the societies we live in and, the
religious faiths we stick to, etc.
But, nobody guides us as to in what proportion, we must divide
our attention between serving the right and countering the wrong. While
dedicating oneself completely to serving the right is the ideal, it may not be
feasible in the modern times when the wrong dominates the right. Further,
depending upon our surroundings some of us have to bear with more wrongs than
the others, demanding more time and energy to counter the injustice and violence
prevalent in our surroundings than the others.
Perhaps, we must commit ourselves to devoting more time and
energy in serving the right than countering the evil. If we find that we are
more concerned about the wrong we are forced to face, we must try to find ways
and means to reduce our concern for the wrong and identify more situations that
can give us opportunities to serve the right. The fascinating part is that when
we are more inclined to do the right, some of the wrongs that surround us
automatically wither away by itself or with the help of those who give preference
to doing the right than fighting against the evil.
After having traveled some distance on the path narrated
above, we get an absolutely different experience of life that is soothing and
enlightening to the way we live. That could turn out to be an opportunity to
gain more control of our lives to make them more and more meaningful and satisfying
as we proceed further honoring the dictates of our inner selves.
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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