Rajyogi Brahmakumar Nikunj says instead of being judgmental about our fellow human beings, we should appreciate the goodwill in all of us
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth, said Carl Jung.
One of the greatest disease of our modern lives is passing judgements or making conclusions about almost everything and anything that we get hold of. But why are we in such a hurry to pass judgements without properly understanding or knowing the facts IJ Well! simply because its too inconvenient or too challenging to know and understand others.
Hence, the easiest way is to create a conclusion about what others are like and hold that as a reason to avoid engaging with them. The funniest thing is that most of us are also quite judgmental about ourselves too. For example, many of us make excuses like ‘I have been like this since ages,so its not possible for me to change at this age now’ or ‘This is my nature, bear me or forget me ‘to justify our avoidance to change the way we live our lives.’
There is a famous idiom, ‘to each his own’, which means that each person has the right to make his/her choices. So, then who are we to say what is right or wrong IJ It certainly varies from culture to culture and its usually shaped by prevailing belief system. Some people believe that eating non-vegetarian is bad for health and yet some people survive only on non-veg.
Some say that killing in name of religion is wrong and yet there are increasing number of wars being fought in name of religion today. Most of us tend not to like these kinds of contradiction or ambiguities, and yet we also tend not to take time to deeply investigate and clarify the morality of our actions, so its easier to believe in the apparent finality of a right and wrong, especially if we are the creator of that finality.
Many of us have been taught to equate being happy with being right, so we are always trying to be right in order to be happy. For this, we seek to create and rush towards a final point that might deliver a moment of self satisfaction. But it can only be a moment,and therefore inconclusive, because who has the right to say what is right and what is wrongIJ Ultimately no one, right IJ So rather than getting into this confusion of right and wrong and passing un-necessary judgements, its better to go with natural flow of life.
When we fully see and willingly embrace the perpetual never endings of all that is real, we enter the flow and the joy of living thereby dissolving the desire and fear of all forms. So let’s be natural and not judgemental, that will save us a lot of time and energy. RightIJ