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An idea that Can Destroy the Humanity!

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There was recent news that in Varanasi – a holy Hindu city of India and the electoral constituency of the Indian Prime Minister – the police have discovered the activity of constructing a vast underground facility near a mosque – known as Langda Masjid. The underground area of the complex is quite wide: about 4000 square yards. It may be a small news but a few big questions arise: Why was it an underground complex? Why was it being constructed secretly? Obviously, the authorities were not informed, let alone seeking permission to construct the facility. Why was it being constructed? What was the intended use and purpose of this complex? Why was it being constructed clandestinely?

The answers to these questions could be: It was being constructed underground because there was scarcity of land over ground. But the answer could well be: It was to be used to store arsenal – dynamite, rifles, tenguns, rocket launchers and the like. Then, it was being constructed secretly because money by way of illegal gratification would have been demanded by the authorities to allow this construction. But the answer could well be:  It was being constructed secretly because the persons responsible for this construction did not want the police to know this complex.

To find out the correct answer out of the two alternatives, one has to look around to find out what is happening in many neighboring countries today; and to look into the past to know what had happened because of such illegal activities and preparations, to assess the likelihood for future.

And, if one is to err, it is better to err on the right side.

There is also recent news that China in one of its Muslim populated areas has banned the students from attending religious programs and even banned the reading of the religious books. Why China did so ban its students? The answer could well be: China so banned its students from attending religious activities because it is a Communist country, which ideology does not permit the belief in any religion. But the answer could as well be: China so banned its students because its authorities thought that such religious teachings and gatherings spread dangerous ideas.

Our world is a fast changing small village today and to survive one must learn from everywhere and quickly.

In the case of Varanasi, was it a preparation for civil war propelled by an idea? It is more probable than not. And the preparations propelled by such an idea are not confined today to one city or one country alone. Almost the whole world – U. S. England, France, Russia, China, almost all the peaceful countries of the world – is within its sweep.

We human beings live in the world of ideas. An idea can be more lethal than a weapon.

Every man is like another man. All the people are alike. All persons are equal. There should not be any discrimination between person and person. Equality is the buzz word in our civilized world today.

But are all persons alike? Let us come to the real world.

All the persons are alike but they have different ideas. It is the idea that makes them different. It is as plain as it could be. All ideas are not alike and so are the persons holding them.

It is only an idea that makes a person – holding a gun in his hand, braving the vagaries of weather, heat and cold, hazards of crawling snakes and security forces chasing him in the Naxal infested Chhattisgarh – different from another person carrying on his daily life – being happy or unhappy – in a peaceful way. It is an idea that makes all the difference between person and person in our world where we humans live.

It is an idea that you must believe, what I believe. It is immaterial whether this idea is true or not.

It is an idea that I must force all those others – who do not believe in what I believe in – to believe in what I believe.

It is an idea that if those others do not succumb to my demand, they must be killed by me.

It is an idea that if I succeed in my attempt to kill those others, I will be rewarded for this act.

It is an idea that if I – in making such an attempt – am killed, I will be rewarded, rewarded not in this world but in the next world to which I am dispatched by the victor in the duel.

All persons are good. But all ideas are not good. One should be aware that killing is not done today by swords only but also by atom bombs – and certainly by atom bombs, if this duel reaches to its logical conclusion.

If one compares the idea that propels a human being waging war in the Chhattisgarh forests to the idea that propels another human being carrying his war in every nook and corner of this world, one would find that the later idea is more lethal in its capacity to destroy our peaceful world. We know that the idea homing in the mind of the Chhattisgarh’s person offers reward only if he succeeds in killing his enemy to the last man – reward in the form of a State of his Communist idea, in which event he could be at the top in that dispensation. But the idea finding home in the mind of the person of the second category offers reward even if that man dies attempting to fulfill his idea.

It is really a very dangerous idea. But all persons are good – it is only the idea that is dangerous.

But how would one spot the difference between a person and a person holding that idea?

In the instance of the Chhattisgarh thing, one can identify a person holding that idea by spotting a red flag hoisted atop his house, which eventuality is almost always absent; for, holding that idea is not a fool. Nobody holding that idea would hoist a red flag atop his house – for the red flag would connect him to his idea. For the security forces it would be really difficult to spot a person holding that idea.

In the case of the second instance, it is not so. One who holds that idea must – as a mandate – display that idea by flaunting the symbols associated with that idea. It is like hoisting a red flag atop one’s house to certify that he holds that idea. No one needs any effort to spot the beholder of that idea.

The world must come to its senses to grasp this reality and find out the ways and means to deal with this reality without much delay. The terrible events taking place around the world in the recent past indicate that our world is coming to its senses but still hesitant to deal with the danger facing it.

It is not the human beings but the idea that the world should find ways and means to deal with. All human beings are born innocent – and they come to hold ideas later on.

All nations throughout the world must protect their children and their innocence against the onslaught of such dangerous idea. How can children – the next generation of humanity – be protected from the poison of such an idea?

It can be done and must be done by the world to avert the possibility of a fearful destruction of humanity. The world must unite to outlaw the teaching to children of only one religion in segregated gatherings – and promote teaching of all religions to them simultaneously in the common gatherings – or, alternatively, prohibit the religious education to them before they become of an adult age and of the mature thinking mind.

 

 


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