Dear,
What is right and what is wrong? How do you know what is right, and how do you know what is wrong?
Let us see. Someone told you what is right, and someone told you what is wrong, and not only that, someone also told you there is something called a ‘right’ and something called a ‘wrong’, and you have started believing in it so deeply. What do you mean by right and what do you mean by wrong? All our sense of right and wrong is a borrowed sense of right and wrong. All these ethics, morality, all these are coming from the outside, we never found them on our own.
You were so small and somebody said that don’t hurt others, respect elders, speak the truth, be a loving person, this is right and that is wrong. But if you happen to be a smart kid, and you turn around and ask, ‘Why should I always speak the truth?’, there is a problem. If you further ask, ‘What IS the truth?’, there is a yet bigger problem. Papa may try to tell, but he cannot tell. He cannot tell because he herself doesn’t know. He himself doesn’t know because his own Papa told him, and own Papa was told by his Papa, and so on and so forth. And nobody really knows, but this mantra has been passed on since generations.
‘Speak the Truth. That is the right thing to do’. You were told this when you were 3 years old. Today you are 20-25. I ask you today. Why must I speak the Truth? Explain to me. Why must anybody speak the truth? And can you speak the truth without really knowing what is truth? What does it mean to really know? We know nothing. But we all have been like parrots, reciting a mantra.
Now, is it surprising that his world is full of liars who have all been told in their childhood to ‘speak the truth’? All have been told, ‘respect others’, ‘don’t hurt others’, ‘don’t be violent’, but the world is full of liars, rapists and murderers. Entirely, I say. Some rape physically, others in thoughts. Parents told you what is moral, in school the teachers told you. There even was a subject called ‘Moral Science’, and religion and society too have been drilling down morality in your mind. Yet, the world is so deeply rotten, full of suffering, and crime, and violence. Have you never wondered why this is happening?
It is happening because nothing comes in our life out of our own intelligence. All morality comes from outside and when it comes from outside that’s what we get: a botched up human being, a caricature of human being, not a healthy, intelligent man.
All these ‘rights’ and ‘wrongs’ that you have, these ethics that you worship, you have just soaked it in like a sponge from here from there. You read the Ramayana and Ram became the ideal from whom your morality flows, or if you are a Buddhist, then what Buddha said is the code of morality. Or the Christ. Or anybody else. But did Ram follow another Ram, or Buddha follow a pre-existing Buddha, or Christ just borrow his morality from the society?
Had you ever paid a little attention, you would have discovered how fallible your morals are, how incomplete and false they are. What is wrong in one country, is right in another country. What is wrong in one house, is considered right in others house. What is wrong in one age, is right in another age. What is wrong in one religion, is right in another religion. What is wrong in one’s view point, is right in another’s view point. One man’s terrorist, is another man’s freedom fighter.
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