Life is a simple & a straight thread... The more we try to slacken it, the more we end up making it complicated and knotty. It is up to a human whether or not to live happily. After all, you are the captain of your ship. No one on this planet earth is bad, no one is as cruel as we think. It is just the thought flow and the circumstances that makes people behave funny. When we contemplate on this seriously, we realize how much we brand other people under categories of "Never to interact ever", "Mean, Disgusting" and so on, but coolly never ever bother to stop and wonder what could be the root cause of such behaviors.
It is said a human soul is a divine spark, it is the jivatma, a fragment of the paramatma... Just like a drop of ocean is as pure and beautiful as the mighty ocean, so is the human soul. Just like the Divine Father is beauty and compassion personified, so is the human heart. It is said in Vedas, that this Universe, is a living entity, just like us.. If the super set is so beautiful then how can we as its subset be a black sheep.
Even as we look back in to our epics, we encounter the so called villains like " Kaikeyi","Ravana" and so many others... Are these people real synonymous to cruelty. Consider the case of Kaikeyi, the step mother of Lord Rama. The thought of her son being just a second fiddle and disrespected in the mighty empire, made her do the gruesome sin of exiling Rama. But she had a good side too. Her valor and intelligence saved Raja Dasharatha in the war. Ravana was said to be the greatest devotee of Lord Shiva ever. It was his ego and arrogance of losing at the svyamvar of Sita that made him kidnap her.
These thoughts came to my mind when I was talking to a friend last weekend. I was advising her against taking up too many responsibilities outside of home and leaving her child to a nanny. I used to always categorize her under the "Egoistic and power crazy" branch. But when I spoke to her I understood how she was running away from the agony of having lost a child prior to this one. The wounded heart, made her tread paths & speak words which she would otherwise never foray into. I am a judgmental person, I tend to put people under various branches and my behavior changes. But with this incident I realized how wrong I was. That day I walked back home with a heavy heart as I had cut away so many relations from my life just because of not understanding what lied beneath the superficial behavior I was seeing in other people. Was I a right person to judge someone else. Is my slate clean to comment on someone else s? The human mind is a monkey, unless tamed can be a big hazard in a man's path to reach destination.
Life no doubt is a good teacher... :)
