Osama slams EU over Prophet cartoons: That's news about Osama Bin Laden's tape this time threatening the European Union against Prophet's misrepresentation. Though my first reaction was "Oh this guy doesn't want good in this world, why can't he let the people live in peace?", a few minutes of thought made me reconsider. Why did Osama come into the world at all. There are multiple reasons to it, but the most philosophical of all, but quite true, is people didn't follow the golden rule "When you're at the top, be aggresive, that will keep you at the top, but dont be arrogant". He's doing all this because the people at the top were arrogant. Of course Osama is now doing the same mistake too, may be someone else will retaliate Osama later.
Be it the country of US or the Australian cricket team or the newly rich IT crowd of Bangalore, I can say a dozen of other examples. I've noticed that whenever someone reaches the top, even if he were humble, people try to pull him down; if he were aggressive, people get together to device plans to bring him down; if he were arrogant, people try all possible means to push him to the abyss. If Osama is not humanistic, neither is the US and neither is India nor is Pakistan, Israel, Palestine, the list continues. Just that different sets of people weigh one over the other.
In my opinion, people should have good moral science classes in their childhood, I didn't find a lighter way to say what I wanted to; otherwise saving this world is going to become increasingly difficult. An easy example that suits the moment is cricket. If Indian cricket comes to the number one position, the same will happen to Indian cricket if the players are going to be arrogant; every country will then want to bring India down. I'm really not sure what Harbhajan Singh and Ishant Sharma are upto, playing in Australia. You can argue that this is what we need to do to a sledging Australian team. But that's just not the way how things work. You have no business to show the batsman the dressing room when he's walking out whatever he does to you, come on, this is nursery school stuff, we are all taught not to do that. How can you forget it twenty years later? Ishant Sharma should probably go back to his school and pass it again.
If Ilayaraja can create wonders in music, why hasn't he risen above South India? If Microsoft is such an endeared company at every household, why is the rest of the industry against it? If US is the economy driver for the whole globe, why do most countries hate the US? All of them are arrogant!
Man thinks he's part of the supreme race to have ever been created by God. God tries to prove him wrong at every moment, but he fails to understand it almost always. I think it'll all stop only when he destroys himself. If that should not happen, man has to do a little bit of self-examination and realize that nothing is more important than the other, everything needs everything else to live in harmony.
Om Shanthi (Let there be peace)!
Be it the country of US or the Australian cricket team or the newly rich IT crowd of Bangalore, I can say a dozen of other examples. I've noticed that whenever someone reaches the top, even if he were humble, people try to pull him down; if he were aggressive, people get together to device plans to bring him down; if he were arrogant, people try all possible means to push him to the abyss. If Osama is not humanistic, neither is the US and neither is India nor is Pakistan, Israel, Palestine, the list continues. Just that different sets of people weigh one over the other.
In my opinion, people should have good moral science classes in their childhood, I didn't find a lighter way to say what I wanted to; otherwise saving this world is going to become increasingly difficult. An easy example that suits the moment is cricket. If Indian cricket comes to the number one position, the same will happen to Indian cricket if the players are going to be arrogant; every country will then want to bring India down. I'm really not sure what Harbhajan Singh and Ishant Sharma are upto, playing in Australia. You can argue that this is what we need to do to a sledging Australian team. But that's just not the way how things work. You have no business to show the batsman the dressing room when he's walking out whatever he does to you, come on, this is nursery school stuff, we are all taught not to do that. How can you forget it twenty years later? Ishant Sharma should probably go back to his school and pass it again.
If Ilayaraja can create wonders in music, why hasn't he risen above South India? If Microsoft is such an endeared company at every household, why is the rest of the industry against it? If US is the economy driver for the whole globe, why do most countries hate the US? All of them are arrogant!
Man thinks he's part of the supreme race to have ever been created by God. God tries to prove him wrong at every moment, but he fails to understand it almost always. I think it'll all stop only when he destroys himself. If that should not happen, man has to do a little bit of self-examination and realize that nothing is more important than the other, everything needs everything else to live in harmony.
Om Shanthi (Let there be peace)!
Nats, mudiyala da. Truly you are becoming a Natsaananda! Good piece of writing and I agree with your views! Romba psenti aagada da. Take a chill pill.
ReplyDeleteGreat writing da.. Knew you blogged and stuff.. but this is deep stuff..
ReplyDeleteMy quote for you is "One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist"
Something to think about for ur weekend.
Really wonderful message. I completely agree with you but I would like to quote Lord Buddha here, which I feel is appropriate. These words of Buddha are quite unheard of and uncharacteristic of Buddha because he is always been known as a peace-lover.
ReplyDelete"He who deserves to be punished should be punished and he deserves to be favoured should be favoured"
Lord Buddha himself very vehemently approves the act of punishment vested to someone who deserves it. Now do not get confused, I am not supporting Laden here. I would categorise his act differently, he is a "religious fanatic". Fanaticism is different from religious belief.
Before I give my word on this topic, i would like to quote Swami vivekananda, who vividly addressed the evil offsprings of religious fanaticism. These words ran like a brook from Vivekenada on Sep 11 in the parliament of religions. Kindly read it..
Call for the end to fanaticism: Swami Vivekananda closed by speaking of humanity’s history of violence and his hopes for it’s end, “Sectarianism, bigotry, and its horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now. But their time is come; and I fervently hope that the bell that tolled this morning in honor of this convention may be the death-knell of all fanaticism, of all persecutions with the sword or with the pen, and of all uncharitable feelings between persons wending their way to the same goal.”
The moral of the story is "Moral science is not required for Ishant Sharma and Harbajan and Bush and Laden also for the whole man-kind bcos it s always easier said than done".