(continued from previous issue)
5.1 Human Values -10
The great human values described in Bhagavadgita are
presented here.
KSANTI
Ksama is absence of retaliation.
Ksama sastram kare yasya durjanah kim
karisyati – For a person who has ksama as his weapon, satru (enemy)
can do nothing. Ksama is absence of hitting back. If you do not
participate in the conflict, the conflict is not going to continue. If somebody
scolds you, and you give back, the other person is going to give you a few more
things and the quarrel continues! But ksama stops the cycle, it breaks
the circuit, because you do not give back.
Atrne patito vahnih svayameva vinasyati.
When fire falls on a place where there is no grass, or
fodder, it is going to die on its own.
Others can commit mistakes but we should not commit them. If
we do, then fire grows bigger and higher. Hate cannot be eliminated by hatred.
It has to be neutralized only by ksama. Somebody has to take the
responsibility of stopping hatred. Who can stop? Only a strong person can do
that. A weak person cannot do. Wherever there is a conflict, responsibility to
stop lies with the strong. If the weak stops, it is only because of
helplessness.
Whenever we are disillusioned, we get hurt. A sensitive
person gets disillusioned at every step, and is going to feel hurt.
(to be continued in the next issue)
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