Human mind

26 October 2018

Human mind

Both the dearest friend and the cruelest enemy of every human being is his own mind. Though every human being is alone, he can interact himself. It is his mind that sees positive happening in every moment and bad in the same happening too. Therefore, it is you how you can guide you yourself.

It is your mind that compels you to be someone's henchman and an independent being. If you want to live in peace and do progress of your own, you should not be anyone's henchman's it's because you can never take own decision in crisis. If you take decision with the help of borrowed mind, what's the worth of your being? You are less human at the moment. You don't have courage to have eye contact with your opponent. If your mind is submissive, it doesn't matter. You can take it lightly but if you are filled with your own conscience or ego and think yourself as a man of letters, you cannot take it lightly. You feel very desperate and try to find the way as the water makes its way.

See Duryodhan and Gautam Buddha how differently they thought and presented themselves. When Duryodhan was called- A blind's son is a blind by Draupati, he felt insulted and filled with arrogance and led to the Mahabharat war, the most destructive war in human civilization one the other hand, when Gautam was insulted by his neighbor telling him a destroyer of the peaceful society he kept quiet only with his smile, was able to win his heart and became his Guru. Duryodhan's arrogance completely destroyed his family and hundreds of thousands warriors were killed, got nothing in his hand at the end but Gautam Buddha who swallowed the insult was able to make him more than a normal human being. It was due to their mindset. If Duryodhan accepted that he was the blind's son, he wouldn't feel insulted and could take it normally but he could not do that due to his arrogance.

How learned you are, isn't the matter of the degree you have, it is your deliverance that count. It doesn't work unless you prove your worth in the society. How meaningful you are is judged through your performance but not by the post you hold. If you prove your worth for the sake of organization, you may be judged as a true chief of the institution but if you downfall the organization you remain as a worthless human being. Our Nepalese institutions have been worthless due to the worthless performance of the chiefs or the directors or principals or other heads of concerned institutions. If the chief is capable, he can deliver his performance too. Late Prime minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai and the present Kulman Ghising, Managing director of Nepal Electricity Board have proved their worth. But Former prime ministers Dr Baburam Bhattarai and Prachand have not been able to prove the worth of nearly 20000 Nepalese' death it's because what difference is seen in our political arenas of Nepal is still equivalent to- big fish eat little fish. There are not any changes in subalterns' lives.

Dr Bhattarai and Prachanda's had illusion that Nepal was falling behind due to the political system. They forgot that political systems were not the causes of downfall but the real causes of it were the sincerity, honesty and arrogance. Were Bhaatrai and Prachanda able to fulfill the demands they demanded with the contemporary authority in 2052 when they became the Prime Ministers of Nepal? Indeed not. If they couldn't fulfill the demand why they demanded and began the revolt against the contemporary authority. Now they do not believe in bullet but believe in ballet. Bullet made them known as the terrorists but the ballet made them grasp the supreme power of the nation in their hands. It is the mind that saw as the terrorist and as a company later. So is the matter to the present prime minister K P Oli and Prachanda. How did they use to deliver speech against each other and now how they are shaking their hands? It was their minds that thought them as enemies and friends in turn.

The present demand of Nepal is to appoint the right person in the right place. There should not have blood relationship as well as puppets while appointing someone in somewhere. There should not be any reservation for any caste, creed and regions. Reservation makes a human less human. How a one who is somewhere can take himself as the other who is there through competition. Reservation is an inhuman activity. Everyone should use his mind properly and hope for the place where he is fit for. A bad driver leads to the accident but the good one access to his destination. Therefore, every human being should realize that the enemies of the world are illiteracy and poverty. They have to address differently but not in the form of reservation. Illiterate ones whoever he is should get boarding education at free of cost and the poor ones should get jobs at factories with handsome payment but not in the name of caste, creed and geography. It is the human mind that can change the society. If everyone's minds accepts that telling a lie, taking bribe, delaying in works or in justice and corruption are the evils of society and avoid them, progress in every field is no far for Nepal and Nepalese.

Chandra Kanta Pandit

Pashupati Mitra Secondary School

Chabahil, Kathmandu, Nepal