By:- Er. H. R. Phonsa Dt:-14-9-2019
Nature created this world
with interdependence of all creatures, plants, and utilities. Many plant seed
do not spout if they are not circulated through digestive system of birds where
as trees provide food and shelters to birds. Tolerance is key to maintain this
divine association. Long back in the
process of human evolution, an idea of mutual understanding and necessity of inter
dependence must have occurred in the minds of even primitive people. It may have
developed in their bonds to live in small groups as this helped them to
lend helping hands in times of need. On finding this a useful and practical way
to live in harmony living groups, hamlets must have developed giving way to associated living.
These community bonds formed societies giving rise to ancient civilisations. Much is yet shrouded in mysteries about human
journey from an ape to the present day man of global village. The world’s known
oldest civilisations developed on the theme of brother hood and collective
moving ,living and working .How the human mentality and psychology grew to produce
this big change is a matter of interest
and subject of further research to peep
deep into it formation of civilisation as early as 3300 BCE. Since human is the
only creature in this universe which fully developed brain having analytical
sense of coordinating ideas, analysingand
materialising these into productive action . The Human tolerance to the other’s
view point and life styles must have worked in cementing humanity bonds among
our great grand fathers. Tolerance not only between human but also for all
living beings and non living things including services like water, atmosphere,
earth etc. Man is assigned the roll of big brother. With the passage of time greed developed in the
thinking of big brother and he at times becomes selfish, self centred and then destroyer. This indifferent attitude of
man towards man and all other things is
pushing humanity towards extinction, if not arrested in time.
We Indian claim to be one of the oldest 10
world’s civilisation and possessing the
oldest religious scriptures. This all must have been possible through the
dedicated and unified working of our elders. Our older generations must have
worked in unison having accommodating minds for the thoughts and actions of follow
actors. What the man possesses today has been gained through utmost tolerance
for the fellow men and women. Sadly with the development of idea of self in the societies, human
intellect developed giving rise to greed and selfishness. The sense of self and
fear of shortage of resources plays a dominating roll. Human greed and
selfishness increased instinct of animality in human. It is wisely said “Nature has enough to meet our needs but not our greed’s”. From here the intolerance to other’s view
point developed. Development of
Different Religions and specific religion scriptures’ further divided humans
there by complicating matter further. Now
world has are some 4,300 religions. Side stepping the issue of what constitutes
a religious adherent divides religions into Churches, Denominations,
Congregation, Religion bodies, Faith group, Tribes, Cultures, and movements (Paohow
Popchavei PhD, Quora). The world has witnessed “ More religions More Confussion” as preists
and religious peers use religion to spread hate against their follow religions.
According to the 2011
census, 79.8% of the population of India practices Hinduism
(
SCs(22.2% )STs9%),OBC 42.8% included) and 14.2% adheres to Islam,
while the remaining 7.37% adheres to other
religions (Christianity, Sikhism,
Buddhism,
Jainism,
Parsis
and Iranis , Baha'i and some other ethnically-bound faiths .Many other
world religions also have a relationship with Indian spirituality. Hindus are
again subdivided into innumerable sub castes as with OBC’S (3743), SC’s (2000)
and ST’s (1000) Sub Castes or 6743 castes. Ramani’s
Blog lists 308 castes in Islam which has population of 177 Million in India
alone (Indian censes 2011). All these religious faiths revolve around numerous
ways to reach out to God through various God realization routes. These religious
beliefs preach different worships and different ways of worship to realize God
Almighty. But at times this proves a great hurdle in human unity. In efforts to
create sectoral unity humanity is
looser. If anybody argues or disbelieves
a particular belief he or she is declared as atheist (Nastic). Some religious preachers and god men of these
religious faiths are on record to spread hatred towards men of other faiths so
create intolerance. There goes a saying that the religions hatred resulted in
deaths of more men than total killing in all wars in this world. If we preach
as one Creator of this universe, then all His creations are blood relations. If
God is One, goal to reach Him should also be one, routes may be different. Then
where is the possibility of believers of one faith being dearer to God than
persons believing in another faith. In
general more the faiths and religious beliefs more are hate and intolerance
generating centres.
Any particular typed species created by nature has similarities or close
resemblances subject to weather Vagaries. So is human race. Place of birth, economic and
social status make but little difference except skin colour.
There is no difference but variety in creation
of nature. Against this every religion has its own laws which have few or no resemblances
with any other religion. It the creation
of greed of man which created differences generating hate misconceptions and
hostility. This causes differences so generate intolerance. True
religious ignorance plays a great part. Denesh Binjola has rightly
said “In India, greedy people offer partnership to God for better profits. Is
it not the height of ignorance?” ( Quora). Human by nature are selfish with varying
intensity from person to person. More instincts of animalism (preoccupation
with body and satisfying its needs, lacking spirituality) in a person more selfish and intolerant the person shall be.
Indian civilisation
is one of the oldest. The Hindus claim to possess the oldest religious books in
the form of four Vedas( 1900 to 1100BCE)
meaning “knowledge”. It also has More than 200 Upnishadas-18 Smirities, 18 Maha Puranas
(Great Puranas) and 18 Upa Puranas (Minor Puranas). Despite all this
Hindus hate major chunk of their religious brethren called Untouchables( OBC’S) and out caste(
SC’S and ST’s) so generate ill will and intolerance. Excesses on these
unfortunate are committed all over India in the name of religion, Cow
protection, to maintain purity of worshiping place, but no sane Hindu comes to their
rescue and to wipe off their agony tears. India scared Book the
Indian Constitution granting dignity with equality in status and opportunity to
Dalits is burnt, status of Dalit icons
are broken, defaced, their bridegrooms are insulted, rape on their fair sex
including minors are being carried in public view many a times in the presence
of govt. agencies is causing a great deal of uprising in over74% of the Indian
Dalit population. With the passage of time and spread of education among dalit- mulnivasies the sense of self
respect is spouting in them, so the atrocities committed on themare being resisted
and aired by them. This results into
more organised atrocities and more intolerance on both sides. The overall
control over Indian political system, bureaucracy, judiciary and media by a
few upper caste Hindus generate and support intolerance between different
sections of the society which need to be arrested with judicious hands.
Different
religious faith revelries in India are on the rise . Many religious and political thoughts are
playing a great roll to achieve their selfish goals. To counter this, human race will have to act untidily.
Man will have to control the worst human enemies like ego, lust, sexual
instincts, attachment and greed. We have to develop more of the humility, chastity, Character, sacrifice
and goodwill. The men in authority whether in religion, government, politics
media must think of uniting and means to
persevere the human race for its safe
future.
To sum up in a simple
but distinctive manner Former Indian
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the occussion of 75th birth
anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi other
former Prime Minister said “unpleasant trends” of growing intolerance,
communal polarisation and incidents of violent crimes propelled by hatred of
certain groups would damage our polity.
he continues saying that these these trends were repugnant to promotion of
peace, national integration and communal harmony, which were cherished
objectives enshrined in our Constitution.. He advised all Indians to work to
arrest these trends of a few.
By:-
Er. H. R. Phonsa
Can
be contacted on 09419134060 of hrphonsa@gmail.com
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