WHEN THE WAR ZONE IS THE HEART
Have you
ever thought of a battle that takes place on the battlefield of your heart? Be
it the followers of Krishna or the followers of Jesus or of any other prophet,
man has always had to fight on this territory representing either the Kingdom of Light or that of Darkness.
In the
historical epic, The Mahabharata; Dharmakshetra also means a field of
cultivation where we desire to grow the good, but like the unwanted grass which
grows in a field of rice alongside the paddy, and needs to be uprooted, the bad
which tries to come into the life of goodness will also be uprooted such as the
unrighteous sons of Dhritarastra who get uprooted by the good Pandus.
Sadly many a
times a brightly lit kingdom begins to fade due to a hardening of the
conscience and the refusal to recognize a Right or bring about a change in the
Wrong.
Man’s
conscience is perhaps the door the Almighty knocks at regularly; but when that
knocking is not heeded to and when the door is left unopened, the power of
discerning between the Right and the Wrong stops knocking altogether.
Apostle Paul
addresses this problem of man so correctly in his words, “For what I am doing,
I do not understand; for what I will to do, I do not practice; but what I hate,
that I do. If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it
is good. But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.”
Romans 7: 15-17.
The irony of
some lives however, is that they are being wounded everyday on this battlefield
and yet remain ridiculously unaware about it. I wonder if it would be right to
call them the walking dead?
I wonder if the Thane man who massacred his entire family fought this battle with his heart. I wish the almighty kept knocking on the door of his conscience until he paid heed!!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd so the conscience exists so that each time we do an action which is against it .....it pricks...you know i heard it somewhere that soul is like infinity in maths...an assumption...so that life becomes meaningful
ReplyDeleteAnd so the conscience exists so that each time we do an action which is against it .....it pricks...you know i heard it somewhere that soul is like infinity in maths...an assumption...so that life becomes meaningful
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