The monologue of morality

“ What happened child? Are you afraid? It seems as if something is scaring you badly! Don’t be afraid of me! I am not a ghost! I am a just a pleat of your conscience.

Now speak to me and tell me what scares you!

Come again; is it failure that scares you child? Hmm, that’s one thing which I personally love dealing with! So you are scared that if you fail, the world will laugh at you! Well, if that’s the problem, then listen patiently. For what I shall tell you should just remain between both of us. I shall tell you the story of success!

About eighty long years back, there was a man. He was slender and black and Indian. All he wore was a cotton loincloth and all he ever held was a stick.

This fellow was ‘different’. Not only in terms of his dress- sense but also in terms of his ideas. He never thought of violence as bloodshed. For him, non- violence was the ultimate form of violence.

For him, god was not present in some material form. His god was his ‘truth’. And this is what led him to be the father of each and every Indian who has sprouted in India’s fertile soil. Bapu!

I cannot say that Bapu was of so and so class, no I cannot. Because he was a man, who abolished all these imaginary podiums of status. Everybody, including the animals that bore ounces of god’s elixir, or life were equal.

Bapu showed all of us a path. Frankly, it was the toughest and most crocked path one could ever follow. But it taught us so many things. And most of all, those who followed his path received sure short success. The others, who resorted to crime, were imprisoned in huge walls of guilt while their conscience interrogated them.

You ask me child, how this is related to success, I shall tell you. Follow Bapu’s footsteps. After all, his first step was also in the dark. The most important thing is to muster the courage of challenging your beliefs.

Get out there and ask yourself the same question again and again and again, until ‘you’ haven’t found the answer! What do you think; Bapu was born an experienced strategist? No he wasn’t! He was an ordinary man who cultivated the whole freedom struggle in his actions!

Success knows no experience! All it requires is a start and will power.

During his course, Bapu failed too. There came a time when he was alone, and all that was there with him were his weapons of truth and non- violence. But he didn’t give up and tried and tried until one day, he died but left behind the greatest ever-secular republic in the world. You must be like him!”