Life Desk :
Do you hate someone or something? Or do you know someone who hates you? The level of hatred and violence is unfortunately on the rise. And this is certainly polluting our world. We experience hatred and violence at different levels.
At the National level, people of Israel and Palestine or for that matter even India and Pakistan have a history of hatred against each other. And we have seen soldiers giving away their lives to protect the man-made boundaries separating human beings.
Isn’t it because of our limited self-understanding? We see ourselves from the limited boxes of being from a particular country when before that we are simply human beings.
At the organizational level, we see boss, colleague and the subordinate are also not aligned and there’s a cold war going on in many such engagements where these people are involved. In this case of hate we don’t see the bullet, and the person is not killed in one go but he or she is killed through a slow poison taking shape of lifestyle diseases such as blood pressure and many other related complications, over a period of time.
Off late, we are seeing a rise in hatred and violence in our own relationships. Many of us who had promised to live together with our spouse at the time of marriage are not in a position to even look at each other, forget about talking or being together. Love is getting challenged time and again.
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But the most dangerous level of hatred and violence is at the level of self. Yes dear friends we not only hate others but we also hate ourselves. We are not only violent with others but we are also violent with ourselves and with our thoughts or feelings.
All external violence and hatred is because of our internal degradation only.
We create invisible walls within and around ourselves separating us from our real self and also from others. The moment we dissolve our Gang of five internal villains like limited self-understanding, fear, ego, attachment and dominant mind that does not listen to us, we fall in love with ourselves. It happens because we are now reconciled within. The moment we are reconciled within we are also reconciled with others.
-Indian Express
