Beware of History

Beware of History - it can be concealed but can never be deleted. 

Exposure of corruption cases against high placed officers, dignitaries, industrialists and political leaders is demystifying arena around them as ideal, honest and efficient personalities. Their black deeds in the past, which were concealed up till now, are becoming alive and are destroying their present character and prestige.

Unfortunately, they cannot do anything to protect their image and are trying frantically to find some alibi or justification of their actions done in the past or hide the evidences. Even if they do mean to correct that mistake, it is impossible to do so as the event has become inaccessible. Time is a universal recorder of history. Time has only one positive direction. You cannot change the history. All your actions in the past is a frozen truth.

Hence there is a great responsibility for present. If you behave wrongfully, you are creating a bad history for yourself. Talibani forces tried to destroy Buddhist temples in Afghanistan, but they could not remove them from history. America cannot remove its bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from history. China cannot erase the ruthless killing of students demanding liberation policies. It is said that spoken word or fired bullet cannot be taken back. Same thing is true for every action you do. I remember one Sanskrit verse warning the hasty misbehavior.

 सहसा विदधीत न क्रियाम्‌ । 

अविवेकः परमापदां पदम्‌ ॥ 

(कोणतेही कृत्य अविचाराने करू नये. कारण अविवेक हे नाना आपत्तींना आमंत्रणच होय.) 

Do not act in haste and without thinking what is good or bad, don't get lured by temptation of getting wealth, power or success by wrong means. Any thoughtless action can lead to many miseries. There is other side of this fact. If you have done some good thing,acted wisely and responsibly, helped others and did something for the welfare of society, it is your permanent asset. 

Late Dhondumama Sathe started Engineering College in Sangli struggling against all odds. His name will remain as the founder of the college for all the time to come. Dr G. D. Agrawal's fast, Medha Patkar's struggle for rehabilitation of displaced persons though might not have yielded expected results have helped to achieve significant change in project implementation. Even though many efforts have been done to destroy the libraries and centers of wisdom like Nalanda, our ancient achievements in exploring knowledge are still acting as a great resource of information to new discoveries. Our glorious past history of freedom struggle has become a legend. 

I read somewhere that when president Suharto of Indonesia visited India, he expressed his interest in Ramayana and Mahabharata epics. Pandit Nehru commented that India is secular and not Hindu nation. What Suharto said at that time is very important. he said that "You can change future but cannot change history. Our country has majority of Muslim population, but we still respect our history of great Hindu religion" (No proof for this story with me and may contain some errors) 

When some industrialists and leaders say "We might have done some mistakes", we have to understand that they have realized their mistakes or they cannot deny them but that does not pardon them and they have to face the consequences and cannot get exempted for the wrong deeds. 

They should be forced to overcompensate the damage they have done. what lesson we should learn from this is that let us be vigilant of our own actions and build faultless history of our personality. We will not have to repent afterwords or be afraid of our own history in future. 

Habit of good intentions and behavior mold our character. 

 "Occasions do not make man good or bad,  they only show what he is".

As a student of Late Dr. Agrawal, I have decided to continue his work of struggling against corrupt practices in  Pollution Control and Education Sectors.

New revelations of drugs and politics in film industry have shown the power of social media in unearthing the bad deeds.

This is a good sign indicating the end of Kali Yuga and start of Satya Yuga with construction of Ram Mandir.

I shall be publishing book on memories of Dr. G. D. Agrawal and his Save Ganga movement on 18th October as he sacrificed his life for this cause on 11th October 2018.

I hope that all  my colleagues and students will support me in this task.