Mahatma Gandhi’s
three monkeys is a well-known point for most of us. In school it was thought, we
also would have seen in art & sculptures, paintings and also in some movies...
this famous three monkeys represents the principle of “see no evil, hear no
evil, and speak no evil”.
Though
originally from Japanese philosophy it became famous due to Mahatma Gandhi’s
usage.
It’s true, when
we strictly follow this principles of - no see, no hear or no speak evil, we
can actually gain lot of peace in life, avoid conflicts and save relationships
from breaking. Isn’t it?
When we look in
depth, feel there is a need of one more Monkey apart from this three.
The New Monkey?!! What
will it depict?
I think, there
is one more area which needs our attention – “Read no Evil”
These days,
whichever area we read, we find lot of undesirable news. It might be either in
area of governance, environment, movies, accidents, crimes, layoffs, slow
economy, drought etc...
Some of the news
is actually sources of information for us to think twice and take corrective
actions.
But what is the
use of other types of information like crimes glorifying, false claims,
manipulated articles, unidirectional books etc.? Isn’t it waste of time for us
to read such materials and later deploy our thoughts. There can be also
situation of such info haunting us for long time.
With the
onslaught of social Medias and technology reach, we are being accessed with lot
of information, which would have not required to all.
Personally my
experience is that, there are certain books, papers, magazines in market which
try to bring in negativity around us. When stopped reading it, at least, we would
save both, time and also adverse feelings.
Some examples we
can quote are –
if it’s raining, either we can show the positive side of dams
are being filled or negativism of only showing how people
going for shopping had to suffer and cribbed due to rain. What is more
essential for us?
Due to Iraq
conflicts, crude oil prices have become volatile, and prices are varying. What
Indian government can do in such situation, except adjusting the prices in our
market? Instead of showing the actual facts leading to price hike, most of the
media is highlighting why Modi is not able control this.
Reading such repeated articles,
sure mind of common man can be corrupted.
As our mind, so
as our thoughts and thoughts leads our actions!!
Henceforth, I am
planning to avoid the new evil religiously and save myself of unnecessary info
getting clogged in me.
