A leopard cannot change its spot

23 August 2018

A leopard cannot change its spot

It's true that innate nature of human being is difficult to change. Human beings mostly think they are always right but never try how other are judging them. They do not get ready to accept the bitter reality. Once they do mistake and haunt them till the end of the life. They may be like a leopard cannot change its spot. Talking to the illiterate men or henchmen is always easy but to talk in front of the men of letters who always quest for knowledge is difficult to deal. What you think right may be right to you but not to all. It's because your innate nature and acquired knowledge or grownups may raise questions to your existence. It's difficult to tell a lie for the first time but it grows up as in the form of habits when you speak a very first lie. To hide a lie, you have to speak another lie. It's not necessary to hide anything which can be seen easily due to the time being.

Beat swords into ploughshares will be the way that can resolve your inner conflict. Sometimes why a man of letters changes himself like a chameleon and does one after another mistake for the sake of nothing. He can gain nothing but tells lies for other. Why he is so much attached with the unnecessary matter. It only defames him. When does he realize it? As soon as he realizes it may haunt him like a recurring dream. Therefore, every human being has to be able to call a spade a spade. If not, injustice prevails and becomes the lifelong nostalgia till the end of life. Everyone has to be aware of such inhuman activities that may compel you to live in hardship even after the departure of the place where they have spent the fertile life.

Every human being does not have the life as an easy cake. They have to face between the Devil and the blue sea. If one is left another follows you like a shadow of your past deed. Your given words may haunt you more than by others. You may twist the word to keep you safe from others but it's not necessary to pretend that you can forget the the deed you did, the word you spoke, and the insincere task you did. They are rooted in your heart and run in your veins. Your inner soul always compels you to repent. Before leaping somewhere, you have to see at the front.

Lord was very obedient to his father and his public. Though chastity of Sita had already been tested, he sent Sita a pregnant spouse in the forest to sooth his public. But he never spent his life in luxury in the palace thinking that his wife was living very uncomfortable life in the forest. He was devotional to his wife too. Lord Ram used to be ready to sacrifice his life to keep to his words. He seems as if he is the bullet left from the barrel and the word spoken from the mouth which never return. When the beating hearts is shattered, maybe the dark clouds hover over the organization where you spent the entire life. Keeping ego in your inner soul may not only hurt you but also the institutions or organizations where your entire life and sweat beds dropped regularly. Duryodhan's greed and Dhritarastras's affection to his sons led to the Great War, the Mahabharat where millions of soldiers or warriors were massacred. Who won the war though it was known as the war for religion or justice? Being a father of 100 sons, he was compelled to be deserted in the end and has to live with his sons rivals till the end of his life.

Even Alexander Great who won mostly the world asked his men to keep his hands on the open sky after his death is the indication of his regret of killing of thousands of people. So might be to a father if he prefers ones and doesn't give his share of property to his son whom he has to give. If the son who is an heir of the property, doesn't receive, may not harm for him but may encourage him to find the better opportunity but his unfair decision of giving property ignoring to successor may harm him forever. He has to live his life in repentance. Therefore, think twice before your final decision.

Chandra Kanta Pandit
Pashupati Mitra Secondary School
Chabahil, Kathmandu, Nepal