HOW TO COPE WITH SHOCKS....!! MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI spent 20 years in SOUTH AFRICA....! [In June 1893, he had to undertake a trip to PRETORIA in the TRANSVAAL, a journey which took GANDHI to PIETERMARITZBURG. There GANDHI took his seat in a first-class compartment....Even though GANDHI had purchased a first-class ticket, the Railway officials ordered to remove himself to the van compartment - since non-whites were not permitted in first-class compartments. As GANDHI refused to comply with the Racist Order, he was pushed out of the train, and his luggage was tossed out on to the platform in the extremely bitter cold of the winter....] The rest was History....:) Most of us have heard about the above story...! But, do you realize that what happened to GANDHI was an example of violence; yet he decided to work for Peace...! What a paradox.....:) Thereafter, as well all know - he returned to INDIA and started his Movement that was based on AHIMSA (non-violence) and SATYA (Truth).....It was soon that GANDHI was to become the champion of champions of non-violence and truth, which he remained till his end...! His last years were in the bloody lanes of NOAKHALI (now in BANGLADESH) where bitter and sordid HINDU-MUSLIM riots had erupted (1947-48) - trying to bring Peace .....all alone....bare-footed...an old bespectacled man...!! [It was this endeavor of MAHATMA GANDHI on which GURUDEV RABINDRANATH TAGORE composed the famous BENGALI poem: jodi tor daak shune keyo naa aaashe tobe eklaa cholo re...] Well friends, according to the Law of Nature, Life is never a smooth journey: its a journey through turbulence and s - h - o - c - k - s.....:( One has no option but to accept this as a Reality....! Indeed, the course Nature takes is determined by shocks and challenges. Anyone who seeks to make himself or herself successful (in his / her own eyes) should understand this Reality and take shocks as stepping-stones in Life. Have a bumpy and lumpy free ride, my dear friends - and arise resurgent and more powerful out of your shocks....:)
Posted on: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:46:31 +0000
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