MY MISSION IS TO CLEANSE MY OWN DARK NATURE
Do you have some people around you who are ‘hell-bent’ to
destroy you?
There is something in the very
DNA – the basic nature – of some people around us, which makes them lust for
others’ agony… They just feel satisfied.
And, let me tell you this: their
academic qualification has nothing to do with how they behave… As it stems from
their accumulated and inherited ‘bad karma’…
That’s what makes two highly
qualified people behave in two extremely different ways: one pens peace and the
other, venom!
Somewhere, sometime and somehow,
one has to become ‘conscious’ of his behaviour stemming from his past bad-karma,
and he has to now, consciously, go about doing something good to people around him…
The more he does this, the more he gets ‘cleansed’ of his dark nature…
That’s my conclusion, Sir. I have
realized this: I have to keep doing good and constructive things… I have to
trust, love and care more… I have to forgive, tolerate, and adjust more… and,
let others be… Let Nature do its justice…
In Life, it’s not my mission to
change others’ behaviour. My mission is to slowly and steadily keep cleansing
my own dark nature… Else, I remain in the same darkness which we call ‘Bad
Karma’.
Let me share this old story, once
again…
One day, a monk
was bathing in a river. He saw a scorpion drowning and instinctively placed his
hand under the water and gently lifted the creature on his palm. But, the
scorpion started jumping and stinging and, soon, fell into the river…
The monk, once
again, took his hand under the water to save the drowning scorpion. But, the
creature continued to be restless… It continued to attack the monk.
A bystander, who
was watching the drama, was shocked… “Sir, why are you trying to save that creature?”
he cried, “It is so thankless… Look, at your hand… It is bleeding!”
“My friend, the
creature is doing its karma,”
the monk explained with a smile, “I am doing my dharma!”
GERALD D’CUNHA
Pic.: Vikram Sharma
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