The 'N' in the title stands for "Negativity"..
Two great epics of Indian soil – Ramayana and Mahabharata
are un-matchable in the way the stories are told and the life’s lessons are
taught. While watching the Mahabharata recently on television during recent
lock-down, one aspect that greatly struck me was about how even if you are good,
obedient and following the dharma may not assure of living peacefully or allow
you to live with grace.
In Mahabharata, the Pandavas are synonyms of dharma and
grace. They themselves do not want to nor get into any trouble or want to
trouble others. They will never harm anyone. But what happens to them throughout
their life everyone who know the epic knows. They will go through lot of
hardships just because their cousin is Duryodhana who is selfish, adamant,
greedy. To satisfy his greed and adharma, which puts Pandavas’
lives in danger, they will face humiliation (especially in dice game) and have
to face lot of hardships (during time spent in forests and in agnatvasa).
What was their sin? What mistake they did? Nothing!!
Just because of Duryodhana’s greed and cunningness they had
to suffer so much in their lives. Even after the Kurukshetra war I do not think
they could have lived peacefully because they would have lost all their kids.
What an immense pain they have to go through. Throughout life they suffer
because of their inevitable acquaintances! ☹
Sometimes even if you want to be peaceful, the people with
whom you get associated with, people with whom you live, your neighbors, relatives
or friends, you will end up in sorrow unnecessarily. So you being good or right
many times do not matter in your own life.
Take the recent standoff of India with China. There is
nothing our beloved country India has done for China. But China is trying to
create tensions at LAC and across the borders. It is just not allowing to be
India to be itself. Also, there is no need of special mention of Pakistan doing
the same.
Whether we want or no, some events, people affect us very
badly in a way which we do not want. There will be a lot of negative vibes they
bring, from which you want to run away but you cannot because of the events or
people being inevitable.
Recently I watched a Bollywood movie “Jab we met”. I have
watched it many times earlier also. But this time when I saw, the female lead
in the movie by name Geet will be so full of life, so much energy and enormous
love towards life and she just wants to be happy. But the person she loved
betrays her during the journey and refuses to marry her. This takes a toll on
her and she loses all her energy and enthusiasm and starts living away from her
very loving family too. There was absolutely no mistake of her!! She will just
be herself. But how she loses interest in life, I just could not take it.
Similarly life is like you come across so many people,
events which will change your personality for not so good and also you try to
change yourself to pretend to be good. But earlier you were good! Which others
misused.
Hence I would say many times in life things change for
people in their course of life for no fault of theirs and they suffer and they
turn against the tide or they become silent or try to ignore the circumstances
or try to pretend which they are not. These they do not intend to, but happens.
As far as coming across such instances, I feel at-least we
should not hurt or de-mean or look down someone intentionally. Because you
should not become Duryodhana for someone, so that you hurt the Pandavas in
others or affect someone who are like Geet or come upon someone who are like
India who never invade other countries. Ofcourse one cannot avoid people with
negative vibes because of nature of the relationship but at-least try to learn
the negative vibes affecting you, still you cannot do anything but suffer. Sometimes
it’s just our fate!!!
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