In the present milieu, Satyagraha is the best way to bring peace
It’s a matter of common understanding that when we want happiness and peace for ourselves, we should keep others happy and peaceful. However, if we make anyone unhappy, then we will also be unhappy, as this is a natural phenomenon working in the universe. Retaliation has lately became a norm in order to prove our viewpoint to the opposite party. However, little do we realise that such elements are destroying our own national property and wasting money. Thereby making everyone anxious. It would, in these circumstances, be highly beneficial to draw people’s attention to the teachings of Almighty Supreme which says that we should not do anything which may cause pain to others or to ourselves. We need to remember that whichever method of protest we adopt, we do not take it up with any feeling of compulsion or despair.
Because any agency, party or a certain individual has done something that is wrong in principle, it would be wrong on our part to allow any feeling of pain or sorrow to enter our minds. We should, instead, maintain our equipoise and our principles of good conduct. If anyone has committed a wrong or bad action, should we, on that account, commit a wrong action as wellIJ In other words, use bad behaviour as our weapon IJ NO!.. We should ask ourselves, has ever evil been wiped out by another evilIJ If, while observing the evil ways of a person, we, so to say, allow evil to enter us, we have thereby given into vice which is our enemy. If anger, displeasure, hatred or violence colour the means we adopt to wipe out evil from someone’s mind, to divert him from evil to the right path, the means employed will naturally display these various colours of vice and taint our actions. Men of this type will never allow good conduct, peace and goodwill to thrive. Thus, it is clear that if we wish well for ourselves and for all mankind and desire good to all, we should never let ourselves, even in the gravest situation, receive pain or sorrow by transmission, as otherwise, all our actions will simply be a negation, an agent of destruction and sorrow and bring in unrest to ourselves.
There is a general belief among the people that present time is not favourable for using peaceful methods to make people realise their mistakes. In this connection, one must ask people whether strikes, gheraos, agitation and other allied methods have, at all transformed people’s way of thinking or improved their standing. On the contrary, it is these very methods that have brought us to this present plight. Even if after a war, neither side wins, it is said by both that a war shall have to be waged again. This illustrates correctly our present position. If men were calm, they would never utter any ungainly words as to say that cruelty can be countered by adopting cruel means and that it is necessary to fight injustice with the weapons of anger and hate. We shall have been proved wrong if we hoped to bring in good by fighting bad ways by means of equally bad methods.
In present milieu, the best way to bring peace to humanity is to rest our lives on truth and divine virtues. This is Satyagraha in the real sense. Truth is like a blessing and always beautiful and therefore, most auspicious for the world. On the contrary, if we say that we are on the path of truth and yet subject ourselves to inward pain and cause pain to others, then we have not at all modeled our lives on the profound maxim that what is true is good for all and hence beautiful (Satyam Shivam Sundaram). Hence, when we get liberated from all the vicious thoughts and impressions , what remains is Satyam, Shivam and Sundaram i.e. truth, goodness and beauty.