733.Moral Fear much needed to protect nature and mankind…..!!!!

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Moral fear is that fear which grips a section of people who indulge in unwanted and uncalled for activities that might threaten the well-being of society. This fear was to provide an avenue for that section of people to assess and redirect society's moral values. It was framed specifically to check the morality rate and is usually also used as condemnation of an outrageous behavior shown towards society. In general such moral fear is induced by the older generation to check the svechachara (self will) of the younger generation.

We could see that last fortnight ago when the earth trembled in Nepal some on social media attributed that act of destruction to the Gadhimai Mela where lakhs of buffaloes are sacrificed to appraise the Goddess Gadhimai. Though one cannot relate the two events the moral fear could have gripped and may be the following year there would be no slaughter at all. But those rational thinking people laughed at the coincidental comparison and threw water over the moral fear that had gripped.

A similar earthquake incidence that stuck on January 15, 1935 at Bihar made Mahatma Gandhi who at that time was fight against untouchability in my country to make a statement. He said, “A person like me, cannot but believe that this earthquake is a Divine chastisement for our sins towards our practice of Untouchability.” Mahatma Gandhi knew about Seismic activities as well as Karma Siddantha and its intricacies, yet he wanted to use the incidence to draw out a positive lesson from that tragic event.

Rabindranath Tagore who equally abhorred untouchability along with Mahatma Gandhi and had joined him in the movements against it, however protested against the statement made by Mahatma. He disapproved the interpretation of an event that had caused suffering and death to so many innocent people, including children and babies to something which was a social ethical failure. He also hated the epistemology implicated by Gandhi and he wrote, “It is, all the more unfortunate because this kind of unscientific view of a natural phenomena is too readily accepted by a large section of our countrymen.”

Here the question was not about scientific or unscientific view of an event. Both Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranatha Tagore were Jnanis who knew about Karma Siddantha. While one wanted to use the event to induce moral fear among the people to curb a social menace the other used it as a skill to prove the unscientific thinking of the other. Was Mahatma inducing superstitions? If yes, what’s was wrong as it was for a good cause to drive out untouchability.

Our ancients asked us to worship trees, it was to protect environment. Had we followed without our rational attitudes, today we would not be sending text messages on WhatApp and Facebook about planting trees to escape from the scorching heat wave across the country. Lakes, Mountains and Rivers were worshiped and they were protected. As this rational thinking set into us we started to dig borewells and the lakes vanished, the mountains were quarried and rivers polluted.

Every prominent personality in my country is a Jnani but I don’t think one has to prove it when another person has given a statement which could benefit the society as a whole. There are many intellectual individuals who even today want to just prove their discriminating power instead of looking at what the prospect of a statement would do to the society………..Am I thinking Right???