Badsurata - The End
Below is a translation of an article in Gujarati. Its more thought provoking in gujju there some words which I cannot translate properly in English.
Just- Ek Minute (by Raju Andhariya, Chitralekha)
It was late at night,on a tree at the edge of the villiaga, a man walking saw a black bear up on a tree. Within few minutes the whole village was abuzz with rumours about a bear on a tree. The bear was shot with an injection to put him to sleep and a net was laid below to capture him when he fell.
When the bear did not fall down, the large crowd that had gathered tried to get it to fall down and they wondered why the injection did not work on the bear. No one was brave enought to venture up on to the tree to take a closer look.
When morning sun rose, the bear became clearly visible, in reality it wasn't a bear but a black garbage back that someone had tossed into the tree.
Unfortunately, there are people among us who cram worthless thoughts gathered from our surroundings into the tree of mind.
How happy we are and how successful we are depends on how knowledge we have collected in our mind. The mind is like a garden, what you plant is what grows.If we plant a tree of thorns than only that will grow, if plant a rose than a plant with a blooming rose will grow. What you sow is what you reap. One good or bad seed can multiply into a millions good or bad seeds.
The actions will show what our mind is like depending on how good or bad our thoughts are. Whatever negative or positive knowledge we have collected in our mind will become a picture we create with these thoughts and then this picture will turn into action.
In short the OUTPUT depends on the INPUT.
This is a second one based on data recently published by international organizations that monitor proverty around the world(The WHO website is good for statistics.)
Success/development has increased, but who's and how many?( Samruddhi vadhi che, pan kauni ...ketlani? Chitkalekha)
Development in India is increasing by leaps and bounds but recently published figures show a different picture of our society in our country.
Under the category of starvation India is in 94 position, Pakistan at 84 and China at 49, showing in China and Pakistan there less people going with food.
There is a race against China and India in who develops faster, but Pakistan who is poorer than India has less people starving.
To analyze the figures, India is successful, earnings, profits and salary are on increase but the number of people starving is high meaning, the wealth is filling the pockets of the rich. The country is rich but the number of poor people has not gone down. The number of millionaires and billionares is increasing so is the number of people facing proverty.
The country can be developed but if the wealth is unfairly shared than the thoughts of man began corrupting too. A wealthy man may not necessarily be happy. Poverty brings with it its own problems, stealing, killings and prostitution. Eventually when the downtrodden rebel the progress of a country can be wiped out.
The proof of this action is proven in Roman history, the fall of the Roman Empire. The unequal distribution of wealth can be seen in America and our country is following the same path. In America if the rich is caught doing something wrong he is punished while in our land the rich goes scott free.
The other figures produced by Unesco shows that India does not spend enough money on primary education. The working class has to spend 28% of his earnings on getting basic education. The large subsidies given to college and university studies means the middle-class and the rich get high education at a lower cost while it remains unreachable by the poor. The poor stays uneducated and gets more poor because in current climax knowledge and education have become tools to reach higher earnings.
The time had come when do we sit and get richer or do we use our wealth for the greater good of the people and balance out the inequality between the rich and the poor.
I hope I didn't bore you with this, because we who live in cushioned western life can be so far removed from the lives of the comman man where our parents or grandparents originally came from.
Just a suggestion, anyone interested in learning more should do a course on Political Geography, you will learn amazing things about poor counties, international aids and the causes of poverty.
Now on with the conclusion
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A frail Nishikant stood at the door of his house with a small bag in his hand. He looked stonily at Kiran and Pia, "Kiran, I tried to get you to change your attitude towards Bani and others but you failed to listen. You tried to get rid of Bani, you took her out of this house...away from her own family and support to fend against the cruel world out there. Today I am leaving you so you can begin to understand what it is like to live without no one loving you, no one giving you a helping hand. Do you think the people who you call family and friends will run and give help to survive on your own. At our age we should be each other's support, one to whom we can look to for love and help to finish the rest of our life in shanti. But you chose to break the shanti of this home."
Nishikant turned and walked away, ignoring pleas wailed by Kiran. He had a better a mission now, to find a place where he can better use his money, whatever skills he had to better someone's life.
Two weeks later, inside the mandir at Walia house, a small wedding ceremoney took place. Nishikant stood proudly next to Rano to watch his Bani getting married to a man who had kept his promise and found his daughter and brought her back.
Rano had taken back the pink sari gifted by Jai as Bani wished to wear only that sari for the wedding. Masi and Jigyasa cried throughout the ceremony. The small wedding had been a wish of the whole family, they had decided that instead of spending millions on a lavish wedding and party entertaining people who already had the money to enjoy life, they would put it to a good cause.
As Jai tied the manglesutra and filled her parting with the red colour that marked as a suhagaan, he reflected how a drop of red transforms the face of a woman, especially for Bani it meant once again the colour of life has returned.
Jai and Bani flew to US for plastic surgeon. It was his wish to see what they could do with the burn mark on her face. He wanted to do this for Bani, to start growing her confidence, to start making her become more indedpendent, to make her realize she had to empower herself with knowledge before she could help others.
A year later, Jai, Bani and family inaugrated the beginning of Jai's important project, a shelter named 'Hamara Ghar', a twenty room facility to provide shelter to women but not only shelter but to educate them also and help them become independent. Bani had become emotional when Jai had shown her the plan. She had cried on his chest and told him that he truly was a saint...her saviour, her angel.
A month later Krishna Nisha Walia was born at home. For masi it was the best day of her life to hold her first grandchild, the first of many as she told Jai and Bani. She said she wanted this house to be filled with the laughter of children and that in her old age she needed some little pitter patter of feets to keep her on her toes.
Rano went on to complete study and become a social worker, she told Bani that the world had lots of business graduates and doctors and lawyers and that her energy would be better put use to saving a few improverished lifes. Ranveer was completely besotted with Rano and couldn't wait for her to graduate so he could put a ring her finger that he had been carrying around for two years now.
Many a time at nights Jai after Bani who never failed to tell him how much she loved her angel, would look at her sleeping face and wonder try to understand why she was the one who made him fall in love with her...one who invoked so much passion in him...one who had shown him how to make the gift of life worth living.
Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.
When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. And there are ways in which we can consciously work to develop feelings of love and kindness. For some of us, the most effective way to do so is through religious practice. For others it may be non-religious practices. What is important is that we each make a sincere effort to take our responsibility for each other and for the natural environment we live in seriously.
(HH The Dalai Lama - The Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1989)
THE END
Ok, I know you are not going to like Kiran and Pia not being punished but Shruti told me that in India the laws for abuse against women only came into effect in 2005 and even so it is still in its baby stage and is not implemented as rigidly. Also the weak judical system means it takes years to get people prosecuted. But I thought a better punishment for Kiran an Pia would be to be left alone to survive by themselves.
Nothing is learned until one themselves experience the harsh reality of life.
Hope the two article above didn't bore you, but they are current and they are something that we should think about.
Finally to lot of you have left postive and wondeful comments on this SS, liked the fact that I took up this subject to base JB story on. Thank you to you also for giving me feedback to finish the SS. 👏 👏 👏
For all those silent readers a quote to think about.
"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated."
So all of you who read ff and ss but fail to leave a line now and then to show your appreaciation to the writer, think about doing so.
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