The Antidote for Hate is Love
The greatest force is Love. Love mysteriously transforms the world. While we think Love is a weak compromising emotion, the opposite is true. Love is a positive force that overcomes fear and the negative mantra of hate. Every religion teaches us to be good and kind to each other. While practicing my faith, I am motivated by some of these guiding principles: Unless we love, with God’s Love, called Agape Love, the highest form of Love, we are nothing. Some of the practical things about love is first accepting ourselves being of worth and value. People with inferiority complexes are often unkind to others. If we know our worth, we would lose fear, enabling us to be kind and inclusive. The concept of forgiveness actually sets us free from the chains of revenge and hatred. A forgiver is always governed by peace and positivity. To quote Albert Einstein, “Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.” Gandhiji said, “An eye for an eye will turn the world blind.”
Hatred and unforgiveness erodes into bones and medically have been found to cause diseases such as arthritis, and affects our blood vessels, causing heart problems in many cases. We are losing our lives by living in the frequency of hate. Let us choose to live by the Law of Love which creates a new powerful equation, which destroys negative forces!
Acceptability infuses us with greater responsibility and accountability to the people we live with. It is a greater challenge to be kind to all people, but we reap greater dividends of joy and blessing. Kindness is a key that opens a glorious avenue of possibilities.
Our spiritual faith is integral to our lives and we carry it within our souls and no one can take it away unless we voluntarily give it up. However, in our diversities, we have to reach a golden ground where we can meet together, talk together, discuss things together, help each other, laugh and cry together, build ideas and form plans for the nation. This will not be possible if we keep hurling mud on each other.
In every religion, there will always be a few fanatical figures who will make radical statements, but this does not reflect the whole community or ethos of that religion and we need to understand it. I hope we realize that life is not forever and we cannot hold on to our earthly identities, views, land, and properties and we need to get a grip of things in order to unite in harmony to make a better world for all.
Let us choose peace. In for peace, we have to make special efforts to unite and love:
We need to stop blaming each other all the time. The blame game is a vicious cycle and it never ends. A nation can never progress if it spins itself in a yarn of blame games.
We have to let go to let grow: This calls for forgiveness of the past wrongs. It would call for inner healing and deeper reflections.
We would need to try to understand why the other is so upset in an objective way. Objectivity kills subjective fear and hate.
The crux of the vein of humanity is this: Today if a tragedy were to occur from an outside force, all country citizens, (Indians) would join hands and help each other. We have seen this happen in the past. Why wait for a worse catastrophe when we can join hands now!
The truth is while we honor our country, we need to value one another and not hit out and attack our fellow citizens calling them traitors or anti-national and anti-patriotic at the slightest provocation without any proof or substance.
What we do on Earth is important if it adds up to eternity. If it equates hatred, violence and destruction, then it is useless. In the end, all that remains in eternity is Love.
Rita F. Kurian
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