It’s widely accepted that the love of
humanity is above all religions. May it be Christianity, Islam, Buddhism,
Hinduism or any other religion across the world, each of them has the spirit,
sons of the same father, then why are we fighting to divide ourselves in the
false pretension of patriotism, nationalism or many more.
One may boast to say that universal
brotherhood is the mirage because every nation must put hand forward for this task;
only then, this can be a reality. Can anybody tell the name of any country
where the great souls did not universalize the oneness factor, to love the
humanity and respect every individual. The great souls like Lord Christ, Lord Buddha,
Confucius, jarthustra lighted the lamp of humanity through ages. There had been
the effort by every country in this direction.
Today, in the globalized world, who can
imagine to be untouched from the occurrences world over? It’s like being empty stomach in spite
of delicious dishes in the home.
Just think how all nations are
interdependent over one another economically, socially and religiously. Being
broken from the bonds how can any nation survive? Can anybody tell any nation
fulfilling all its requirements by its own? It’s firm belief and wide
acceptance that there will be none.
The days of blind nationalism and
unguarded patriotism are wrapped in pages of history books; today they mean
nothing in reality.
Today in materialistic and utilitarian
world we don’t live merely in family, village, country but in the world too.
The students prefer to get education in foreign universities, to marry foreign
girl, to settle in foreign land, to visit foreign tourist places. Moreover,
everyone wants to become an international icon than being capsized in any
particular territory.
Today whole of the world have felt the
vitality of universal brotherhood, that’s why many international social,
political, religious and economical organizations are constituted to supervise
the welfare of the world and humanity.
In the field of entertainment, many
foreigners have become the integral part of Bollywood films whereas many
Indians performed in foreign TV serials and other places.
In sport, this interdependency can
clearly be observed; the coaches and trainers are mostly foreigners. In IPL you may see how India has divided into many
teams having many foreign players in different sides. In many interviews of
these players, how they enjoy the companionship of one another with diversified
habits and cultures.
It’s also a fact that once to contact
other country was a hard task, then the life of individual was confined but
today in the age of technology, that excuse exists nowhere. Now an Indian can
join the wedding party in America in gap of 7 or 8 hours. An Indian studying in America can talk his family in
India as if they are talking sitting beside.
So it’s a wonder how anyone can talk of
mere patriotism in this age. Just
sit aside and think what anyone is going to obtain and miss as a patriot and as
an international citizen, the answer you will get by yourself.
Over emphasizing patriotism means we are
again treading back to the age of brutality and duel, only fight all around to
show ownership of particular territory and property. Does anybody want another
world war like situation? Are the people not fed up of the immeasurable losses
in two consecutive world wars? Don’t
the people realize that these world wars have put indelible spot in the history
of human beings?
Before being American, Chinese or
Indian, we are human being of the same anatomy. What’s wrong in hugging
universal brotherhood? It’s like the tree giving sweet fruits and shades for
other and preserves nothing for itself and like the rivers providing water for
others not for itself. It does not drink water but it makes other drink.
Even an ordinary man with simple
prudence and confidence can firmly tell that its unstoppable natural force, no
power can be hindrance in its way. It will prosper, prosper and prosper.
India has ever initiated positive step
in this regard. In Vedic era the idea of ‘UDAR CHARITANAM TU, BASUDHAIVA KUTUMBKAM’
showed the spirit of humanity. Latter Lord Buddha and Tirthankar Mahabir Swami
embraced the people of every section of society. Who can forget the historical
moment not only in Indian history but the history of the world, when Swami
Vivekanand powerfully lectured in Chicago conference
of religions in 1893.
In 20th century, Mahatma Gandhi taught the lesson
of truth and non-violence and told that need not fear from the sinners but from
the sin.
Think about the country’s economy where
most of the foreign companies pay high taxes to government and provide the
valuable services in different forms whereas most Indian companies earn a lot
from foreign soils and pay back to Indian government and Indian people. To
provide most of transport, food and technological facilities, we depend to debt
from IMF that has made the development in Indian possible. We get handsome
amount as gratuity from WHO to fight fatal diseases and natural disasters. The
foreign tourists pay beautifully visiting India for different purposes.
After coming in contact of other
countries, our social framework has also changed positively. There is great
emphasis over girls’ right, education, poverty alleviation, awakening for
downtrodden people, improve in literacy rate, life standard and ascending the
per capita income. The great
souls went to another countries and served a lot like James Princep, Sir
William Jones, Mother Teresa , Annie Vesant, C.F. Andrews, Sonia Gandhi and other
many Indians in abroad.
To speak high and glorify universal brotherhood
to be quintessential for mankind is a nominal false pretention. If it’s not
like that, then can anyone give an answer?
‘If there is fire in the village and his/her house too is on ablaze,
whose house will he save first’, obliviously the answer will be ‘own house’.
Another situation which can be exemplified and put, if the team won any trophy,
and his/her brother was one of the team member, whether he/she will celebrate
the victory of team of her brother, certainly the victory of her brother will
be more important than the victory of the team.
Under the light of these references it
is to emphasize that in theory whatever may be, but in practical life, an
individual is above all sorts of universal convictions and false promises.
Just think, how can a hungry man fulfill
the stomach of another one? How can a man donate the needy persons lavishly if
his own bank account goes nil. To get an appropriate answer, one should go and
ask a beggar on the footpath ‘What does universalism mean? For him two times
meal is more important than any concept or ideology. There is another big
hindrance in the path of universal brotherhood. Can a man fiercely entangled in
the personal problems solve other’s problems? Of course, answer will be ‘a big
no and never’. One can easily find the contradiction in the idea of creating
the beautiful platform of universal brotherhood where every human being will be
treated equally like brothers. It’s merely mirage in the deserts which is never
going to be fulfilled. The patriotism is not merely a reverence to the nation
but it’s religion, it’s culture and moreover it’s above all goals of livings.
One may shower claims to bring equality
and fraternity in human race through universal approach and ideology while
he/himself might be well aware of the fact that it’s never possible as
‘difference lies in the very nature of man’. There are large scale differences
among human race in color, climate, lifestyle, belief, caste and creed. These
reasons had been the factors of conflict between different communities. The
European countries captured the other countries and tortured brutally their
original people and squeezed its natural resources. They consider themselves to
be more civilized species of earth. In that case it’s nightmare to think and
foster the idea about universal brotherhood.
It’s not the first time in human history
to think about universalism. The great souls like Lord Christ in Europe, Jarthustra
in West Asia, Confucius in China and Gautam Buddha, Mahabir Swami in South Asia
propagated the idea of love to human beings but today their sermons and preaching
are lied buried in the books or in the temples only. The communal riots, long
list of conversion, by avarice, trick or by force do authenticate the rifts and
differences in us. They cry the slogan of one god and all sons, but the same
have bifurcated and divided. They are fanatic and orthodox of their own beliefs
and religious practices. Even in the modern world of science and technology the
superstitions prevail strongly.
India extended hands of brotherhood with
China in the year 1962 with slogan ‘Hindi Chini, Bhai Bhai’ but in return how
China responded, we all know very well, the attack on the poorly equipped soldiers
in the regime of Pt Nehru. We also know what the then prime minister Atal
Bihari Bajpai got in return after his visit to Pakistan in 1999- the heinous
and inglorious the Kargil War.
It’s not problem of India or its neighboring
nations, there is hardly any country which is not having the boundary issues. The long running conflict
between Israel with philistine is well and widely known. Every country has some
lasting challenges in its domain like Naxalism, Moaism, racism, regionalism,
language and many more internal issues. As long as these issues are not solved
our effort to universal brotherhood will be in vain.
One can grieve at the idea of universal
brotherhood when he sees the strong hold and dominance of a few so called developed
countries over the world organizations like UNO, IMF, UNICEF, UNESCO and many
more. Although these organizations are constituted with notion to benefit all
human beings but they are headed and governed by the powerful developed
countries like USA, Britain and others. The world’s second highly populated
country India could not secure a permanent seat at UNO till now. The
dictatorship of the lead nations we have seen everywhere. For their own
benefit, they twist the rules and execute accordingly. They have their covetous
eves over oil store in west Asian countries, and to tighten the hold on these
countries, either they are attacking by themselves on false accusations or
promoting internal conflicts to weaken them. Today almost all the developed
countries devise to have strong hold over world economy; they have the hawk eye
for being the leader in the world market by hook or by crook. The developing
countries are big sufferers in it.
If there is equality all around the
world, then it’s surprising to say why are there so many disparities among currencies of different nations
like dollar, rupee, euro, Yuan, dinar and so on. The attack over Indians in
major countries like Australia and America and step motherly temperament of so
called developed countries exemplify their hidden notions.
Another
thing that is striking and remarkable that if one stabs another man right in
the belly through the dagger and later says that, let’s forget our enmity and
be noble friends, can the wounded fellow extend the hand in friendship?
Absolutely it will be ‘never’. Can
Japanese forget the Hiroshima and Nagasaki event? Can the world’s notorious
dictators like Hitler, Napoleon and Mussolini and Bismarck be excused? Of
course, it is ‘No’. Can Russia ever be friend of America? Can World forget what
Germans did in world war? Can Germans ever forget what injustice so called
countries in League of Nations did to them? Though
the wars are over today, but the pots are boiling everywhere.
This is to say in very clear words that ‘It’s
act of not any single country but cooperation of every nation, and that is, in
fact, never possible and practicable.
Moreover,
if patriotism values nothing then what
is the use of celebrating Independence Day and Republic Day with pomp and show?
Throw away the false crying over the slogans of jay hind, dilli chalo, tum
mujhe khoon do, mai tumhe azadi donga so and so. Forget Bhagat Singh, Mahatma
Gandhi, Subhas Chandra Bose and other great warriors and martyrs.
In this regard, the lines of
famous American poet Mark Twain are worth quotable that ‘East is east and west
is west and never twain can meet together’.
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