A Fool's Notion.

It was a sunny summer day. A group of people, who consider themselves from upper class, were taking bath in river. A boy from lower class was watching them through the woods. He also wanted to take bath, but he was not allowed to do so. Because upper class believed, the river would get polluted if any untouchable takes bath in river. “Amritlal”, a guest in the village came down to the river to take bath. He accidently looked at the boy but with great affection; the boy was very beautiful and adorable. His clothes were tattered and dirty. He took the boy in his arm and washed him and gave him bath.

Then what? This incident was spread in the village like fire in a jungle. Few men gathered front of the house where Amritlal was staying, they were shouting and cursing Amritlal. Someone from group shouted “you have committed a sin and bring disgrace to our class”. Their faces were burning red. But Amritlal was very calm and cool he answered with patience, “Brother! By depriving this boy from bath you were committing a sin the god has created all of us with same love and care. Each human being is unique & equal and everybody is free to enjoy the gifts of nature. You have not created this river, it is created by nature so you have not sole right over it, I have tried only to lessen your sin by giving bath this poor child”. After listening those words people were speechless and ashamed.

This is a very old story almost 500 yrs old or may be more but India had been suffering from this mental block “untouchability” for many years. Passages from scriptures such as Manusmriti indicate that the Varna system was originally non-hereditary. Not only India, even World suffered a lot when Hitler’s whimsical Nazi race wanted to rule the world. The upper, lower and different classes are only product of mind. And what good it brings, when whole humanity is suffering?