Recently once again I read that story of the Sage, the Scorpion and the Hunter; in one of the leading news papers. The story in short is as follows.
There is a sage taking bath in the river and he watches a scorpion, which is on the verge of sinking in the water. The sage holds that scorpion in hands and takes it to river bank with an intention of saving it. When the sage is about to put the scorpion on one of the rocks safely, the scorpion stings the sage badly. Still, sage puts the scorpion gently on the rock and returns back to complete his bath and other rituals in river. Again sage watches the same scorpion, is about to sink in the river. Again sage helps scorpion land on the safe rock and again scorpion stings the sage. This repeats again almost for 4-5 times and is observed by the Hunter, hidden in the woods nearby the bank of river. When one more time sage is about to save scorpion the puzzled hunter comes out of woods and asks the sage very eagerly, “Oh great Sage, why are you so much bothered to save this dirty and ungrateful creature and why is not allowing to die it sinking into river?”. The Sage smiles and replies with lot of affection, “My Son, To save and to love is my nature and to Sting is Scorpion's nature. Even if it's stinging me I can't change my nature for it.” Etc. Etc.......
Many of you must have read this story many a times, isn't it?
Well, let's come to other side now......when I had read for the first time, teachings of Arya Chanakya(Please Google with word CHANAKYA to know more about this great Indian Scholar.) I hadn't understood, why it's written about being shrewd and how to behave and depict your personality particular way etc.etc. Also I had read about Niccolò Machiavelli and Machiavellianism in my M.B.A. Studies under the subjects of Human Resource Management as well as Organizational Behavior. I was confused why ever on earth one needs to learn these things of shrewdness, conspiracy, being dubious about surroundings always and lot many political things which are supposed to be bad characteristics as such.
If we follow life like the previous-story-Sage, we will be very good person and if we follow the way Arya Chanakya or Machiavelli suggest to live then we will be kind of bad, comparatively.
What is the better way of living life?
The former suggests sounds better one but it is not practical. The later suggests is practical but, the mind doesn't agree to live completely that way.
What to do?
Dear friends, the world is really full of very different kind of people. The kind of people we can't at all imagine about. And many of us are stung by ungrateful scorpions at least once in our life. Well, I came across one of the verses in the literature of Arya Chanakya which means, “THE SNAKE, EVEN IF IS NOT POISONOUS MUST ACT LIKE ONE”. And that is the real answer I got.
We must remain neutral with every one around us. As much as possible we should help others and at the same time avoid our personal loss. We must use our common sense while judging situations and people. We must remain alert in order not to be stung by the ungrateful Scorpions. How? Well this is where we can use theory of Arya Chanakya and Machiavelli.
I got the answer that, at heart, we should always be purest and harmless creatures of GOD, we must be sinless creatures, but at the same time, in practice we should follow the way Arya Chanakya and Machiavelli suggest in their respective literature.
In very simple words I wish to say, at heart be truest of yourself but while depicting your character and personality in front of the world (everyone except I is my definition of world.) use Machiavellinism and Chanakyaniti.
This is my personal experience that life becomes smoother and peaceful after experimenting what I have written above.
Just because, we are at heart what we are and at the same time the ungrateful scorpions of this world don't dare to sting us even once because of, what we are displaying to world.
Also, by studying Chanakyaniti and Machiavellianism, we can analyze and understand motives of people around. That helps us achieve success and peace of mind.
Try it out and let's see........
kya ho gaya bhai???
ReplyDeleteThere is too much of energy that goes at times in something that is eternal. Dost Chill out.. don't spend too much energy on it...