Strength Is Might

Strength is might (शक्ती पुज्निये है )

We Indians are well-known for our style of greeting others. We bow our head, & press our hands together; I noticed that we pray like this too.
We greet the god in the others when we meet them. That’s the greatness of our culture. We are taught to be humble since we are born. However there’s a great difference between choose to be humble & passively being humble.
If I go to a terrorist & ask him to surrender, practically I can be called a fool. Yes, I deserve that. I am trying to be polite when I don’t have any other choice. I am not choosing to be polite; I am bound to be polite.
I see practically most of us living with this rule. We think it’s our culture & greatness to be polite. Yes it is, but not, when we don’t have any other choice. How can I make a choice when practically I don’t have any choice?
I was taught that even a God like Rama bowed to Ocean to give him path, that’s our greatness & culture. I agree that is Lord Rama’s beautiful character & strength. We should follow him for that. But According to Ramayna , ocean refused & Lord Rama then took out an arrow to make his own way, Rama had a choice. 9 out of 10 of us, If given a bow; strong enough to vaporize the whole ocean; we wont request it first, to give us way. We will threaten it to give us way. That’s the character strength of Rama. He had the choice but still he was humble. He chose to be humble when he could choose effectively not to be.
Now If I would be in place of Rama & I bowed in front of the ocean to give me path. Can you call it my strength or greatness? No you won’t & you shouldn’t. I would be having no choice. So I would be doing what I could.
A person having that arrow to dry the ocean & me is left with practically no difference. He’s doing what he can do & I am doing what I can!!!
Being humble is only great when you choose it & can choose not to be. If you have to be polite & have no other choice. You can be called effective, practical & cowardly but for sure you cannot be called great & that’s what we used to be. We were Great not coward.
Be mighty before being polite. That’s the key & that’s what we had been doing since centuries.

Arpit

Evil

Evil Strikes Back

Americans trained Taliban, to use them against an enemy & one ill-fated day, Taliban attacked America. Thousands were killed on American soil. A hand crafted for destruction attacked the crafter itself. Being humans, we empathize with the sufferers & we forgot the lesson lies underneath. If stated in one line it will say

Evil always consumes the creator.

Assume somebody who is good to me but bad to others. Personally, I failed to feel immune & have a reason why, one day he will not turn bad against me. Right now he definitely has a reason, to be good to me but inherently he’s bad & that’s his nature. Unfortunately I saw people getting close to someone like that & one day came out crying, that they are hoodwinked. What they do not understand is that the person is always looking for an opportunity to do that & finally he got one!!!!

The same mistake we repeat with our children, we teach them to lie to others. Sometimes to avoid a call, sometimes acquaintance we do that. Indirectly we teach them how to cheat & when one day they cheat us; we feel bewildered. If we get out of our emotion of having pity on ourselves, we will see that it is perfectly natural. You teach them evil & now they are making you taste it.If a terrorist asked me or you about details of a person to kill him, it’s so natural to lie to him. What’s important here is the fact that I am still cheating but I am doing it for a reason, a noble cause. As I always believe .It’s so important to do right things in one’s life; but it is more important to do them for the right reason. A right thing done for the wrong reason becomes wrong. When my child lies on my instruction I save my two hours & I jeopardize at least to lives, mine & his.

I know it feel so good to train a clown & make him work for you. It feels amazing when you train a dog to bite others & he does that. But it feels so helpless when that dog can think & one day bites you back on someone else’s call.

It’s not bad to lie or cheat if one is doing it for a noble cause but if done for small things like promotion, carrier, money, relations. If you are making others suffer for your pleasure, it is evil & one day will consume the creator. It will consume YOU.

Arpit