Saturday, October 19, 2013
110. Are we so elevated to differentiate a Person as Good or Bad?
It is a routine to say that even good people are needlessly harmed. Everybody criticize the act of Absolute in this regard. But one cannot really categorize as good and bad people. We are unable to observe a person all the time from his or her birth to brand him or her good or bad. Some time we ourselves are satisfied that we are good person, but the fact is that we are unaware of the wrong doings done in without our conscious. Even mental thought that might be affecting others is wrong, though not expressed in words or deeds. Thought in the mind is the source of words and deeds. Therefore the thought may not hurt others today, but tomorrow it may hurt others when it comes out in the form of words and deeds. This is the fact that intentions are given more significance in the crime according to law. The judge looks into the intentions for the cause of the crime before giving the judgment.
A person walking on the road may step on an ant and unintentionally kill it. There is no punishment for such acts. But when one harms the same ant with intention, they are subjected to an inquiry, by Absolute if not by the law of the land. Therefore thoughts of the mind are the cause of the result of the actions performed. We have developed the habit of judging people by their behavior, but we have not learnt to judge our deeds by the intention behind it.
There was a movie been shown and a person enters the theater a bit late and sees a scene where a group of people are thrashing a old man, at that time he sympathize old man but the person next to him tells him in the scene before this old man had tortured his daughter-in-law so he is been thrashed and it is justified. This is exactly what happens in our life we are unable to judge as we have not got the power of knowing the scenes that happen before hand to take the side of any person or object to any person’s action.
Neither have we the power to punish nor to excuse anybody. The reason for this is that we are not omniscient. As far as doing wrong, if one realizes the mistake and takes a resolution not to repeat it again that is enough. This is called Prayaschit (repentance). Once a person knows that the deed is wrong he has to see that he does not repeat it. If the person does not repent, he will repeat the wrong deeds again and again. Such person cannot control himself from doing wrong acts and the society also cannot control him, hence he is kept in isolation in jail. This isolation has to make the person think of the ways to change his attitude towards life. There are no such people who are good or bad, all of us are the mixture of both good and bad attitudes. All it needs is thriving to get transformed to be a use to self and society. This transformation is possible only by love and knowledge. There can never be a person who is perfect in all senses, if he is then he is equal to Absolute.
When we sit back and judge a person we feel that we are better than them. But the fact is that we have no rights to judge a person as we are having mixed attitudes. The only entity that has the capacity to judge any person is ABSOLUTE alone and no one else.
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