Evil vs good

It has always been my practice to write blog when my mind is
flooding with thoughts and interpretations of certain things. But I’m going against
the trend today since, I don’t have anything particular in mind, nor I’m
feeling like writing anything in particular. It’s just that I didn’t wanted to
finish the day in usual manner as I do always. Let me write up something, said
my mind. Well, that makes the saying “Change
is only constant” stronger now.
People are up against FDI in retail market. There are protests
everywhere in the country lead by several “Leaders” who go unnoticed other
days. Bal thackery, the self-proclaimed protector of Marathi
Manoos, growled in his party’s mouth piece “samna”, saying he would kick
the new jnanapith awardee of Kannada- Mr. Kambar for his references on Belgaum.
Vinod Kambli (the ex-indian cricketer, if any of you have forgotten already)
suddenly remembered that he was part of 96’ world cup match. It would have been
good if his memory worked only till that point. But unfortunately (for rest of
team india players), some cells overworked in his brain to remind him that it
may have been fixed.
All this happening around me, used to invoke genuine
questions in mind. Like why this protest? Why Mr. Thackery said like that….e
tc. I was honest to such a extent that I used to read the whole content of such
news headlines in newspapers. But over a period of time, Ëxperience – the teacher,
is teaching me “lessons of life”. I don’t want to discuss anything in detail
here, since the teacher inside each of us would have explained all these in a
unique way. But to put it in a simple way, all this is jus part of the system
where everything is based on greed & need. We put different masks to others
need projecting it as greed, and honest mask to our own need. For media to
survive, they have to be top on TRP charts. For Political parties to survive,
they should not fade out of Public memory. For opposition party to come back to
power in next elections, they should be carrying out protests against Govt
policies, good or bad. It is all part of system. Everything happens for its own
survival and need. The perception differs.
Why we are part of such a system where everything seems to
be bad. Everyone is chasing his own need. Does that mean everyone is greedy? Being
greedy is evil? Here I’m. I started with blank mind, and I’ve a big philosophical
question hauting me now.
Mr. Amish did a wonderful job of explaining evil in his Shiva
Trilogy book. As per my understanding, he tries to say that the universe is
always balanced with evil and good. What does a person do to be a evil? Just
because he murdered/ looted some one cannot be judging point. What made him to
do that? He has dropped into a mind-set which lets him believe that its okay to
loot someone for his own survival. Punishing him may seem to be possible way of
giving justice to victim. But what needs to be done is to make such person
detach from such evil thinking. Though it is impossible to do so practically,
it does help you to understand that a person should not be seen as evil, it’s
the evil principles to which he his attached, which has to be seen as real
evil. Think this way, and I’m sure you will be more calm in dealing with such
people in your daily life. After all, he has got attached to some evil
thinking, lets help him overcome that – think this way.
Gaining publicity seems to be ultimate motive of people I illustrated
above. I’m unable to see anything evil in that. Since it is very much part of
their profession. Everyone cannot be expected to work in a 9-6 job, get paid,
shut- the- mouth- and –lead- your- life kind of life. But if it starts causing
problem to aam-admi by halting traffic, disrupting basic services etc., then we
need to do something. Lets help them realise their attachment to evil thinking
that disrupting public life wont do any good to either him or anyone. I’m sure
many people can come with many more solutions for this on similar lines.
Well, that is it. My mind has done a wonderful job today by
unloading something which did not exist inside it. Was it evil???? LOL…. Time to
sleep.