Love entails even the Lesser Evil

 

Be less dangerous and less hateful. Put down your dagger and pick up a stick. Keep the possibilities of repair and redemption. All these are nothing but lease deeds to see you through the turbulence, till you come out of the fog after some experiences and see for yourself the truth. Without real blood on your clothes and scars on your conscience, the journey to unearth the real loving you will be easier, I tell you.

If pushed to the wall, and with all options out, you can still choose lesser wickedness. That mind you still keeps you on the path of salvation.

The ancient days of real bloody hand-to-hand battle are over. Then daggers were more suitable than sticks. They drew more blood and made you more threatening. These are but more of social battle times presently. Instead of drawing blood, it’s about catapulting ego, anger, jealousy and complexes. It’s no longer about bloody injuries since these might land one on the wrong side of law. It’s about law-abiding invisible whiplashing.

An advice here. As you set out to tame and slay the real and perceived enemies in the social battle, you can very well afford to carry a stick instead of a dagger. The dagger will go too deep into somebody’s ego to inflict a permanent wound. Staying there as a painful milestone to instigate the carrier to work and connive against you in future. If it is not possible to drop the weapons altogether, carry a stick at the most.

Instead of calling somebody bastard, thus inflicting a dagger wound, we can say your father must have been away when you were conceived. Hope it again doesn’t sound like a dagger wound. Well, I mean to say, we can try to bruise the skin only, to pacify our ego, with the stick of our words, instead of stabbing the heart with a dagger. A mark on the skin is less painful. It will not leave a permanent scar. Time heals everything. But it takes some more time, and sometimes it lasts more than a lifetime, to reach the extent of the dagger’s farthest point.

Social battles are very funny ones. Almost flimsy. So why carry lethal weapons. There are hardly any permanent enemies. Scenes and stages are shifting. These are basically funny little stage shows. People hardly care about who the last paper enemy was. So carry a namesake stick. We need not even hold it in our hands most of the time. Just keep it in reserve tied to your belt. You will feel like a well-equipped soldier ready to tackle the enemies in the social battle.

Dagger is suitable for hate, plain anger or for the unholy, dark duty to kill like in war. But how long can one keep the fire of hate going? Long before the fire consumes our last enemy, it burns the carrier body. Its quality is to burn only. More importantly, it hardly differentiates between the carrier body and the target. So beware you all who have the propensity to burn in anger at the slightest match-strike of tiny irritants. It's better to be irritated only, instead of going full throttle with anger and hate. And a stick is a suitable weapon for irritation. It's a lesser weapon. Irritation also is a smaller fire. It is as much less harmful to the target as it is to the carrier.

The ultimate goal of course is to go without any weapon at all. And dropping irritation to still less harmful and gentler reactions is the aim. All this goes in parallel with the degree of control we have over our mind. Again it boils down to training the mind. And sitting in silence and looking at the real self daily is the first step in that direction. 

With softer weapons in your hands, the loving self inside you will be the first one to drop its guard. It will embrace you with gentlest force the moment you drop down even this flimsy weapon. At this point your loving self feels no bounds. Limitless vistas of freedom open before you. You enjoy unconditional joy. Do you still have any doubts about attaining enlightenment?