Walk on fire if you must

Feb 10, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
Many of us are constantly battered by any number of challenges. Among these is the destruction of the moral fabric that is society.
We are constantly lied to and lied about. Many times persons and companies want us to hide wrong doings and want us to lie and cover certain things. Many times we are asked to cover fraud and bribery and corruption, to hide rape and immorality.
It is who we are that leads us to make a decision; to take action – either we do as asked, or, we walk away.
Doing as asked has its own ramifications. You become subsumed into the whole charter set by those who do not care for the soul. You are expected to lie, cheat, bribe and steal. You lose your true self to become a tool of immorality.
This is what a society can degenerate to: A conglomeration of persons who becomes tools of immorality for those in offices and ownership – as well as those who want office and ownership. You are expected to toe the line and to epitomize their brand of immorality. Staying and doing as asked makes us part of the immorality.
And yet, walking away has its own, even worse, ramifications. Walking away means you must walk on fire. You are beaten by everyone. Everyone thinks that you lie, you cheat, bribe and steal. At that moment, every good you have done for everyone becomes history as everyone wants to ensure that their voice is added to your pain. After all, how dare you walk? And those who you walk away from will use every fiber in their being to create hell in every direction, after all, that’s their lot.
Those who chose affirmative but non-violent action are vilified and bruised by everyone else who wants to question that something must be wrong…again, how dare he walk? We use up a life-time of efforts to criticize and belittle, but are we brave enough to do the same – and to withstand the crazy world erupting in your face?
Yet, we all must ensure that at least once in our lives we turn our back on wrong-doing. When you are expected to do wrong things and asked to hide wrong things and asked to create immoral momentum, it is good to leave it way behind you, way below you.
Mahatma Gandhi said Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. This was echoed by Martin Luther King Jr, in his autobiography.
We all must at least once in our lives leave it behind us. Whether it’s in a Government Ministry or the business Office, whether it’s in the Corporate world or the religious world. One day, one time, just once, tell them to embrace their own immorality – and you walk away.
It is then that your heart will rejoice and your soul will sing because true freedom is suddenly experienced.
There are two groups of people: those who walk away from evil and those who embrace evil. ….I know what camp I select. What about you?
Yog Mahadeo

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