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Living Healthy in a Cancerous Society

Sometimes we get to meet some people and interaction with them even for a few minutes sucks our energy for the entire day. They are so grossly unreasonable that probably our body and mind get shocked at the gross unreasonableness and they take some time to recover from that shock😉. I wonder why these people become so unreasonable. Probably, it's a deadly mix of incompetence, a very low level of understanding of life, and also a chance to occupy high positions of authority.

Ravana was very unreasonable but he too had only two of these factors. He occupied a very high position of authority and had a very low level of understanding of life. But he was quite competent and occupied the position of authority by his competence. Since he did hard work for that he appreciated the people who had the capacity and could do hard work. Similarly, Vali too was highly competent and occupied the position of authority by his competence. 

People who occupy the highest of positions by sheer luck or manipulation can never appreciate competence. The value of a diamond can be understood only by a jeweler. Dhritrastra never understood the value of Vidura. Hiranyakashyap did not realize the goodness of Prahlada. I feel that when people make one or the other demonic qualities the center of their lives, they lose appreciation for all the angelic qualities. A gang of dacoits will not appreciate philanthropy. A gang of "bad boys" dancing to a loud DJ will not appreciate a person playing flute. Loud arguments have no space for logic. People blinded with the shine of money and powers have no respect for sacrifice. Selfish people can't appreciate the value of selflessness. 

Why is it so that "Bad boys" are not disturbed by the presence of "good boys" while the "good boys" get disturbed?  It is because the "bad boys" have defined their world in a very limited way and slowly become insensitive to the rest of the world. On the other hand, the "good boys" have love and affection towards other people, the systems, and the organizations. That is why "bad boys" remain unaffected so long as their "limited world" is safe and secure. They are happy so long as they get the credit for the work and it does not matter to them whether the work is actually good for the organization or not. They are happy so long as their positions are protected and it does not matter whether the decisions they take will prove to be disastrous for the organizations. They are happy so long as they can "use" others for the perpetuation of their self-interest and in the process others may fall ill or even die.

Sensitivity may appear to be a curse. However, insensitivity is like cancer which eats away the entire body slowly and gradually. The cells of cancer eat away the entire body and finally get burnt or buried with the body itself. So long they keep eating away the body, they enjoy the party. The good cells of the body keep struggling to protect the body and in the process become quite sad when they realize that the cancer cells have taken over the body. So long they live, they keep fighting. We do not really know whether the growth of cancer is a result of our lack of awareness and efforts to lead a healthy lifestyle, a result of our past karma, or due to the mighty cancer cells. Autophagy is an answer to the problem. We need an army of hungry cells that can eat away the cancer cells. Nature has magically provided us with an answer to all the problems of the society. We just need to shift to minimalism. Once we learn to appreciate the beauty of minimalism, these "cancerous people" automatically lose their value and positions in society. That is what Mahatma Gandhi did to the British. He did not "possess" anything that could be snatched by the British away from him. 

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