Hardly any one in this world be find who in his life long journey can proudly claim not to be subjected to some sort of insult, humiliation or persecution at any time. Insult has got many formats with different degrees and angles. As per the demand of time and situation its definition kept on changing. Not long back, in our childhood to be punished for wrong doings from the hands of parents or elder siblings never counted under the head of insult; yet in some major cultures of the world it prevails in the same old privileged form of elder family persons. But in the prevailing modern personality development and schooling norms of the Western world any such behaviour of scolding, spanking or any physical punishment howsoever it may be lighter is, objectionable. Though not long back it was a common practice either. In Western World any such hard behavior toward children either at home or in school is considered as “cruelty” to them and taken as an ill effort to hamper the personality development of kids. Parents or teachers may undergo through institutional punitive proceedings or legal proceedings established by the law of the State.
If we look into the Indian perceptive, some classes too have been subjected to incessant insult or persecution for a considerable long period of time and in some form little or more the same mind set still exists in our social system. Not only this, this process or custom to insult or persecute some specified sections of the society too had a social recognition at large. Although with the social awakening and spread of education along with other reformative factors this evil practice has been shrunk to a point remarkably. This evil practice had had a big prop from the citation of Hindus’ most venerable religious scripture and that was pious ” Ram charit manas” great epic composed by great poet of the time Tulsidas ji that describes the ode of our all time god “Lord Shri Ram.” There comes a verse, ” dhor, ganvar , shudra, pashu, aru nari je some tadan ke Adhikari.”( Animals, rustics, down trodden and women they all be persecuted time to time, they deserve this chastisement.) Though our saints and seers too have objected to this plain expatiation as such and they claim that it is a distorted one merely to defame the HIndus’ social system but no one gave the ears. Since our this epic is the basis of our ethical values so it was used as a big tool to tarnish our social image and critics at large cited this verse to derogate us.
Hindu social system was not insulted rather humiliated by the Western scholars upon this verse for at least two centuries. Since they people were fraught with racial supremacy and skin color and they took the advantage of illiteracy of we Indians as well regard this citation. They forget that this epic composed by great poet Tulsidas ji is merely four hundred years old of which citation they took support to tarnish the image of Hindus. Now FLARING QUESTION IS whether it was only in India that this kind of humiliation was proposed and imposed upon some classes of the society and no any such malpractice was observed in the so called Western World? The answer lies in this cited proverb of old English time which is rather many centuries older than our religious verse and it run as such, ” A WOMAN, A COBBLER AND A WALNUT TREE, HARDER YOU BEAT THEM BETTER THEY BE.” The proximity of the meaning of this proverb is the same as that of our verse, but the antique value indubitably carries this English proverb meant it,s origin is many centuries old .
Apart from this now we focus our attention about the types of insult. just an example, a common pedestrian when walking on the road, on being entangled with some object or skids upon some slippery material and falls down heavily and receives some injuries, people walking by his side laugh at him derisively. Person suffered from this incidence takes himself as insulted for without causing harm to some one he has been a subject of derision. whilst the truth is, people who laughed at this incidence some time, somewhere in their life too had experienced the same insult. They too had slipped midway in the same way and been subject of derision. Then question arises why they enjoy the same happening in this enjoyable mood? Answer lies in the fact that the sense of cruelty as the part and parcel of our mind set is intrinsic to us. We enjoy finding other people in distress.
We shift now to another point. We all in our life time in all probability become subject or object of insult, persecution or atrocity in this or that form. The person who manages the incidence properly comes up as the sensible one, others not so lucky remain under the dark shade of that for long. Derogatory behavior towards us may be classified into two categories. One is short term and another one is long term. Short term derogatory behavior is termed as ” insult” whilst another one is termed as “humiliation.” The standard operational procedures may differ in man and woman. Women are most sensitive one, the element of “blush” is extant there so the same derogatory incidence that may last for a jiffy for a man may be rather more lasting in time for a woman. To feel and sense the insult or humiliation a distinct mind set is needed which is supposed to be harnessed with factor of “self respect” or “self dignity” and if you lack this factor then you are a man with thick skin and any kind of insult matters nothing to you.
Generally people are in the habit to let vanish any insult after some short period of time but the factor of “humiliation’ is the situation that needs a terrible exercise to get rid of that. Insult may cause you a frustration but humiliation may lead to you into depression. The example of insult I already have mentioned but the “humiliation” is something grave in nature. You take the situation as such, today your financial condition is sound, likewise your social standing is high. People cherish an awesome respect for you. They adore your social status which is comprised of your grandeur and pompousness. And suddenly your this status of grandeur and pompousness is snatched from you. Circumstances lead you to the crest fallen condition, you are now a pauper and suddenly you realize that people who happen to give you an awesome respect have begun to treat you as a discarded one. You fall down in your own eyes watching the people behavior towards you. This is “humiliation.”
This situation may occur with any one and at that time when you encounter your bed time the memoirs of your egotist or arrogance may prick your conscience. Then what remedy it has got. The remedy is there and the same one that has repeatedly been mentioned in our religious script, ” one should always be nonchalant in all situations.” Further an another ethical slogan one should always remember, ” This time too will pass away.” Penned by– Vinay Pharasi….
