The Mahatma

We just witnessed 69^th death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi a few days back. Going through the facebook posts and comments I was really affected. We are so eager to hate someone. It’s  like we first develop that hatred and then find reasons to support it afterwards. Hate is a big word. I mean you can dislike someone but to hate someone like Mahatma Gandhi is just lame. I have begun to feel people outside India respect him much more than they do in here. 
We want to hate him! How could a person tell us to be righteous when we know how corrupt and degraded we are? I am not saying Mahatma Gandhi was a perfect man, nobody is! Neither am I nor you. He was stubborn and rigid but he was a man of his word and that is something I admire the most. He did what he could against the odds and that is something much more than anybody did for this nation. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings but we worship Ram and frankly he wasn’t a perfect man either (Valmikiya Ramayana) and apparently he didn’t do a lot for the nation or mankind.

So the point is we can find reasons to hate anybody but then aren’t you the glass half full chuckles! The worst part is that most of the time people don’t really hate mahatma for things he did or didn’t do; they do it because they are viciously politically motivated.  Political parties have called dibs on such figures, decorate theirs and defame other’s. In the bandar bant of great men, Congress got Gandhi ji, BSP took Baba Saheb Ambedkar, BJP took Swami Vivekananda, so on and so forth. They were all great figures and the fact is their work and ideologies are degraded by the followers themselves converting them into selfish motives.

 I hear people saying Godse did the right thing; I get links of Youtube videos and books about the justifications. It’s just sad! Selfish political motives can force you to justify cold blooded murder. What he did, he did. But what you are doing now tells a lot about your mentality. “A man who is laden with the guilt of human blood will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him.”(Proverbs, 28:17).

Violence can never be an answer. If it was, we should have had utopia long ago but apparently we don’t. It’s not a solution when blood of a common man is spilled. 
Just an endless circle.