Tolerance And Patience Vital To Freedom
In my village in Uttar Pradesh, at an early age, i witnessed an incident so upsetting that even today i have a ivied memory of it. There was a mango reef, which was laden with fruit. One lay i saw a boy throwingstones at the reed till mangoes rained down on him. Vhat impressed me was that while the oy was giving the mango tree stones, he tree was giving him fruit in return. I did not react to this incident, UT learnt a positive lesson from it. I vas in the school of nature, which was eaching me this: 'If someone throws tones at you, even then you should ive him fruits in return.'This would pitomise the highest of values in ife. Moreover, this is the greatest vay to further one's intellectual and spirituals development. In the present world, someone or the ther is bound to 'throw stones'at you. If you react, you will get nothing but anger in return. But if you curb any reaction on your part, you will have demonstrated certain great things-the spirit of tolerance, the spirit of forgiveness and the capacity to maintain your positivity even in negativesituations. Later on in life, i discovered that in this world of problems, this is the only way to maintain one's spirituality. This is the only way of living by which you can satisfactorily develop your personality This was the first lesson of my life. This lesson told me what spiritual culture was, how one could maintain one's mental balance sufficiently to develop a spiritual personality. In my childhood, i understood this lesson unconsciously, but in my later life, this lesson became rooted in my conscious mind. Now it has become second natural to me. Having a nature like this has proved invaluable. I am an even-tempered person who is not easily provoked or allows his thinking to become negative. Having such a personality is my greatest asset, and perhapsthe credit goes to the village boy who mademe learn this lesson through a shocking experience. We all lovefreedom. Everyone wants to live with total freedom. But this freedom culture creates a serious problem. That is, wheni exercise my freedom, say, by swinging my arms, it is very likely that i will hit another person's nose. The freedom of one person can be a problem for another. Such a situation is an integral part of our lives. No one has the power to eliminate this problem. When we reactto a negative experience and start fighting with another, we are not merely fightingwa person, but are rather infringing on his freedom, which is part of naturenot part of that person. Because we cannot abolish freedom, the result w be that we will be fighting all the timThus, we will live in frustration andnegativity, and that beingso, we willlose our greatest assets-spiritualityand positivethinking. To save our ownfreedom, we havetolerate the freedom of others. And tosave our own spirituality, we haveto overlook the misuse of freedom by othso long as it is within limits. Wehave toensure that our own personality develment will proceed along the right linesThe wise way of living in this woris the way of patience. It is the realistapproach to life. Sometimes, we mus simply accept things as they are.
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Courtesy: Maulana Wahiduddin Khan and Speaking Tree ,Times of India
Tolerance And Patience Vital To Freedom
In my village in Uttar Pradesh, at an early age, i witnessed an incident so upsetting that even today i have a ivied memory of it. There was a mango reef, which was laden with fruit. One lay i saw a boy throwingstones at the reed till mangoes rained down on him. Vhat impressed me was that while the oy was giving the mango tree stones, he tree was giving him fruit in return. I did not react to this incident, UT learnt a positive lesson from it. I vas in the school of nature, which was eaching me this: 'If someone throws tones at you, even then you should ive him fruits in return.'This would pitomise the highest of values in ife. Moreover, this is the greatest vay to further one's intellectual and spirituals development. In the present world, someone or the ther is bound to 'throw stones'at you. If you react, you will get nothing but anger in return. But if you curb any reaction on your part, you will have demonstrated certain great things-the spirit of tolerance, the spirit of forgiveness and the capacity to maintain your positivity even in negativesituations. Later on in life, i discovered that in this world of problems, this is the only way to maintain one's spirituality. This is the only way of living by which you can satisfactorily develop your personality This was the first lesson of my life. This lesson told me what spiritual culture was, how one could maintain one's mental balance sufficiently to develop a spiritual personality. In my childhood, i understood this lesson unconsciously, but in my later life, this lesson became rooted in my conscious mind. Now it has become second natural to me. Having a nature like this has proved invaluable. I am an even-tempered person who is not easily provoked or allows his thinking to become negative. Having such a personality is my greatest asset, and perhapsthe credit goes to the village boy who mademe learn this lesson through a shocking experience. We all lovefreedom. Everyone wants to live with total freedom. But this freedom culture creates a serious problem. That is, wheni exercise my freedom, say, by swinging my arms, it is very likely that i will hit another person's nose. The freedom of one person can be a problem for another. Such a situation is an integral part of our lives. No one has the power to eliminate this problem. When we reactto a negative experience and start fighting with another, we are not merely fightingwa person, but are rather infringing on his freedom, which is part of naturenot part of that person. Because we cannot abolish freedom, the result w be that we will be fighting all the timThus, we will live in frustration andnegativity, and that beingso, we willlose our greatest assets-spiritualityand positivethinking. To save our ownfreedom, we havetolerate the freedom of others. And tosave our own spirituality, we haveto overlook the misuse of freedom by othso long as it is within limits. Wehave toensure that our own personality develment will proceed along the right linesThe wise way of living in this woris the way of patience. It is the realistapproach to life. Sometimes, we mus simply accept things as they are.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Maulana Wahiduddin Khan personal views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Maulana Wahiduddin Khan and Speaking Tree ,Times of India