It is high time we realized that we are completely responsible for the decadence of our minds. Man against man and woman against woman. All this jargon about it being a man’s world needs to be looked at. Who is responsible?
It starts with parents favoring a
boy child. The power that parents in law use to mishandle the woman who leaves
her parental home to integrate herself into a non-accepting and even abusive
family. Maybe, they know no better. Ignorance is the worst affliction humanity
suffers from. In extreme cases, this can result even in suicide later!
This is one side. Now, to the
parents of the girl they marry off in a hurry, often into a non-compatible
family. And they refuse to support her. She is then left to fend for herself in
a hostile environment. We see the atrocities committed on her every day. We
love preach that what can’t kill you makes you stronger. Talk to the person who
faces abuse!
Look at the evils in society. India
is said to be a forerunner in crimes on women, rape and sadism ranking the
highest at this time.
Worst of the lot is women against
women instead of supporting each other. Petty squabbles, comparisons of all
kinds. “Friends” who abuse and so called “friends” who watch friends being
abused! Sibling rivalry over looks and property! (by the way, men are equally
guilty). Women in women empowerment organizations, politicking with each other and
disempowering themselves in the bargain!
In business groups, where women who marry into such “family” owned businesses, where they have no rights once their spouse is no more.
What kind of mind and attitudes
are we sporting, that we are completely out of control? Virtues like mutual
respect, boundaries among genders, trust, faith are all wiped out and the few
who value them are actually the butt of ridicule.
We are busy at parties, get together,
speech platforms, spouting words defaming all of this, but WHO is responsible
when humans attack humans? Does ANY finger point back with a deep realization?
No! Always at others.
We never stop to think that it is
each one of us with our polluted personas that contributes to this dirt in the
world: the situation that is called Kaliyug.
Look within and clean up. This is
the way the energy around you will reflect your environmental cleanliness.
People will talk ad nauseum about how it is impossible to reverse the trends of
today but no one will start the process of reversing them. We have lost the
connection with the divine energy which is all around us but we never tune into
that frequency, with terrible and disastrous results.
What kind of a world are we
leaving behind for the future generations when humans themselves are incapable
of managing the very institutions of humanity, service and justice that they
are the custodians of, custodians, I have to say, without caring and compassion
for people who depend on them due to their own powerlessness? Custodians who
don’t care about fulfilling the mandate they are given and they have committed
to verbally and even on paper. Forget the power of the spoken word.
Surekha Kothari
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