What we sow, we may have to reap, blood never settles!
“Reap what you sow.”
“They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.”
In Old Testament as well as Quran, there is a narration of a wrongdoing (calf worship) of the Israelites and Gods strong response against it. Above two proverbs may be traced back to this narration. [Old Testament - Hosea 8:7, Galatians 6:7, Quran - 2:54 (and verses around it)].
These sayings clearly say, wrong actions will certainly recoil.
Our great epic Mahabharata clearly portraits the aftermath and meaninglessness of conflicts. After the war, only dead and lost remains - most of the braves and their achievements are dead and the most remains are pained the women and children, with a highly damaged lively hood.
King Asoka realized the same meaninglessness of war, after Kalinga. He was blindly applying his force against the helpless civilians of Kalinga and the destruction and pain changed him, and the world.
The modern world is yet to realize it. The conflicts for and after European aggression of the world and the atrocities of two world wars have not made us realize the pain. Now, Israeli war lords may be thinking that they are solving the problem, instead they are making the wound much bigger.
Unfortunately, the modern world is crueler, most of us are not touched by the irony. Instead, our morality and values are termed so that we are ready to be beneficiaries of the restructuring after every conflict. We are becoming foxes of the old story and encourages the fight between goats.
Let us open our eyes, heart and mind to the man-made tragedies called wars and armed conflicts. Let us educate ourselves on the useless nature of it. We do not have Jawahar Lal Nehru or Mahatma Gandhi with us, we have to learn from the wisdom they have preached us to not to take sides on this inhuman exercise.
Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die - Sree Budha
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” ― Dante Alighieri
... ashamed of us, everyone please introspect on what can we do to stop these bloody armed conflicts, in our capacity.
After all, no one wins and none of us can disown the responsibility of this. All of us have already failed 😥 revenge - counter revenge - counter counter revenge ... 😔
May the ongoing conflicts an eye opener for us and work towards peace. Please stop the war now.
- https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Hosea-8-7/
- https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Galatians-6-7/
- https://legacy.quran.com/2/51-57
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_calf
- https://feminisminindia.com/2020/09/04/book-review-after-kurukshetra-by-mahasweta-devi/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ini_Njan_Urangatte
- https://letusdiscoverindia.com/the-kalinga-war-and-its-aftermath-ashokas-accession-to-the-throne/
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