SMS from Inner Self

When I go for walk in the morning, number of ideas on variety of subjects come to my mind. With the grace of Ma Saraswati, it also comes to my mind that I should record these ideas. I pondered over the title under which I should write these ideas ? Number of titles blinked on the screen of my mind and ultimately I liked to save “SMS from inner self” out of those titles.

Today when I went for a walk, a question came to my mind. How the mother nature establishes principle of co-existence? Immediately my sight moved on the trees around me on the road. I found all the trees full of green leaves. However, on careful observation, I realized that though the trees were full of green leaves on it, they were also sprinkled with different colours of flowers and fruits! Think over it and mother nature’s message becomes very clear. Green, though chosen to be the principal colour in the world of vegetation, it engenders and preserves variety of other colours in the form of flowers and fruits. Otherwise, why a tree laden with full of green leaves should produce a red or orange flower or a fruit of a colour other than the green?

Now if we, the human beings think of us as only human beings, accommodating or adjusting with different religious/social beliefs and living together with all the differences will never be a problem. If we think of us as human beings, concept of majority and minority also becomes irrelevant. Since compartmentalization in different races, casts, creeds etc., is not doing us any good, we need to refresh our style of looking at ourselves. Globalization and compartmentalization is a mismatch. We need to learn a lesson from the plant kingdom. As the majority of green leaves allow different colour of flowers and fruits to grow and prosper gracefully with them and aid each other in enhancing grace and grandeur of the tree, we, the human beings also should live aiding and enhancing beauty of humanity with all our differences.

Common man's responsibility

In a democracy like India, the common man-aam admi is in a dual roll. Since the people themselves are the masters in a democracy, the common man is a master. But at the same time self sufficiency and self responsibility are the key conditions for a success of a democracy, the master himself has to play the roll of a servant also.

We frequently hear about people indulging in violence and sabotage. This leads to criticism of the administration and law enforcement agencies. I am not against criticism of the administration and police in such conditions. While appreciating people's right to give vent to their anger in a peaceful manner, their indulgence in violence and sabotage should be strongly criticized by the media and public leaders. I have never seen this happening. Reporting of this type of incidents are carried in such a manner that directly or indirectly, behavior of the people seems to be justified. Media may have their business interests and political leaders may have their political interests. But what about the masters of democracy themselves ? Should we, the masters of our own beloved democracy wait for some one else's criticism of our unbecoming behaviour?

Think about our attitude. We keep throwing rubbish anywhere we like and think of a municipality that should maintain an army of sweepers or costly sweeping equipments but at the same time do not like taxes. To give vent to our anger, we burn buses, trains and damage other public and private property. To stop us doing this we expect government to maintain a large law enforcement machinery. If these law enforcement officers resort to lathi charge or firing to control our violent outbursts, we call it atrocity on innocent people. If they keep leniency, we call them weak, biased and held them responsible for our misbehaviour. Every one of us thinks that it wasn't me yaar! There are few miscreants followed by gullible spectators. These gullible spectators are the masters. At least, as a responsible citizen, if these gullible spectators can stop inadvertent mingling with the miscreants, it will be a great service to the nation and will help law enforcement agencies to do their work in a more people friendly manner.