Middle-Path

What is a Middle-path: a way which has been shown by Lord Buddha to the Mankind around 2500 years ago and following the Middle-path is the Mantra of today’s world. I would like to discuss few incidents which took place in recent past or rather still taking place.  The humanity has changed its colour and the cause is this pandemic. Instead of serving each other in this difficult time we have started digging each other’s grave. China the originator of this pandemic is showing the world we are coming out of this situation and life is coming back on track. In my opinion this can’t be true because the kind of situation is being facing by the mankind it is hard to understand someone coming out of it so quickly. Although, I am not saying they should not come out of their misery but they are the reason the world is suffering today.

Here I am sharing few incidents which according to my belief deserve to be discussed upon or maybe we should think about this side of the picture as well. We are suffering or the world is suffering and the cause of suffering is the desire-desire to become the world leader and that has leaded the world to this pandemic. We are all equal nothing will make us superhuman but a desire to show our supremacy we lost our mind and COVID 19 is the result. I wish the world should remember the words of Buddha about “suffering”.      

Lot of news these days which are floating around us have made us think where we are heading towards. The other day my wife told me one of her friends who live in Mumbai. A neighbor of her spitted on her and ran away and of course the neighbor was a Muslim lady. Here I do not want to defame any religion specifically but the cause is desire – a desire to have an Islamic rule on this world. That’s the mindset of these illiterate religion followers are having these days.

I spoke to a Homeopathic Doctor a couple of days ago and he said the present COVID 19 situation on which the entire Allopathy is struggling why aren’t alternative Pathy is been tried out. We as a Homeopathy Doctor work upon symptoms and if Government gives us a chance we might have the cure for it. But, the lobby of English Medicine is so strong that they are not letting alternate therapy enter in the main system of therapy in India. Again the desire is a cause of suffering. Such a big pharmaceutical market the world is today. And nobody except Allopathy should claim the credit.

What has happened in Patiala the other day it was all representation of egoistic behavior of the Nihangs of Sikh religion. Again, the belief of Nihangs might be “ we are not criminals whom you can confined at one place for long and  I am not suffering from COVID 19 and I will not listen to you”. It could have avoided because it has cost a Police officer losing his hand although operation has been performed on his hands. How successful the surgery is only time will tell. Why did I went to that extreme where a poor man might become handicapped for life.  

The big cities of India have better medical facilities then small towns or villages where you really do not care for the patients as much as you could have. Incidents we hear often especially from small cities where a patient died because of hospital negligence. It’s more like Doctors are not interested in taking care of patients rather wants to take revenge from those poor fellows who have come to them thinking doctor in the hospital/clinic will save his life. I believe Doctors are not competent enough. And because of this they don’t want to take any risk with their jobs.

It was not only Tabligi Jamat is the villain but also, few Doctors, one professor few Bureaucrats they all contributed towards the spreading of the virus. Why I don’t want to disclose it, what is the psychology behind it? On one hand religious Gurus have misguided the illiterate Jamaties and on the other hand the so called literates have proved how illiterates they are! Again if you see - it is a perfect example of desire which has led to the suffering of masses.           

“Swatch Bharat Abhiyan” an initiative by Prime Minister of India has just proved its importance in our country at the time when the world is suffering from COVID 19 we could able to control it by relatively better than many other countries. This was a land mark decision of Mr. Modi’s Govt. and at present in spite of lockdown this is still very much practiced. Have you ever thought if this would have not been taken place – what would have been the situation of the country at this time. This is a fine example of middle-path which we took around five years ago and has been proved a landmark decision in present situation.  

Desire is the cause of suffering and detachment from the desire will lead you away from the suffering. I know in present world it is very difficult to get away from lot of things which has become the necessity of the life as we are worldly people. Lots of responsibilities are very much part of our daily routine. I am not suggesting we should move away from our responsibility to achieve peace of mind but at least we can always follow a middle path which will be according to your understanding of life as whole.