DYING DECLARATION & DE-ARCHITECTING CRIME
Dr. Jernail S. Anand
“There is no truth higher than the grave.” – Dr. Anand
There is no truth higher than the grave, and no fear more scary than the thought of the moment when the grave will open its mouth for you, and thou shalt vanish from the surface of the earth. These are the final lingering moments, in which consciousness is granted to man, to quickly summon his worst moments and address a prayer to God for forgiveness. When we are facing the ultimate extinction, we think only of our foul deeds, and we pray for forgiveness. At this moment, while we are facing the worst crisis of our life, our family members, holding papers regarding property in their hands, are trying to divert our attention back to life.
How we meet our death is entirely a personal matter. Death is a prize for those who are good, and a punishment for those who give testing times to the good people, simply because they are not too smart and cannot defend themselves. Yet it surprises, why no one has ever taken any lesson from the declarations of dying persons. We disregard their desperate pleas for goodness and remembering God because we know as long as the society has no issues with our performance, it can be presumed that we are doing fine.
Some people who are involved in crimes, are arraigned in this society and have to suffer indignities. Whether these punishments finally bring them realization and humility, is a moot question. However, punishment for a crime, if delivered without a delicate understanding of his circumstances, finally ends up making the convicted person a hardened criminal. It is also an important question how many people are actually brought to justice? Justice is in itself a double edged weapon. It is expected to be done, to the criminal as well as to the victim. The judges need to be Daniels, but this is a crooked world, in which Danielism is a far cry. There are very few who get justice, and we are left to wonder how long gods will wait for dispensing justice in cases where human courts have erred.
Gods have a heavier and much bigger task in these cases. They are in no hurry, but they wait for the time when these people mess themselves up and fall into the trap themselves. Nobody goes untried and unpunished. Those who succeed in ducking the courts with the power of their money, fall into a larger trap which gods have laid for them. Their victory is short lived. Gods smile when they laugh.
Is it possible to conjure while alive a situation of near-death, and try to address our faults. Let us listen to the qualms of our conscience, when we transgress the rights of others, when we grab what does not belong to us. In every being, gods have created an inbuilt system which says No after you have got your fill. We remove this No option, and never bother how things which are thrown into our stomach beyond our genuine need, create waste. It is only the mentally sick who go on plundering and amassing huge wealth, while, as a result of their mindless operations, millions are reduced to poverty, and they are struggling for bread and breath.
Don’t you want an easy life? Don’t you want happiness, and joy to come to your life? Don’t you want to be a blessed child of God, [can you say you don’t want the blessings of God? Can you afford to say, you belong to the Devil?] If you do not listen to the unwritten and unsaid commands of God, you belong to the Evil camp.
The Casting Couch
How people get a chance to work in films? Remember the casting couch and how men and women have to pay a hefty price for getting a role. If they act well their part, they will stay in favour, otherwise, they are headed for the gutter. This life too is a lifetime chance, which we have got after paying a heavy price, in the form of several incarnations [religious seekers say: 84 lakhs]. Shall we not perform to the best of our abilities? Even if you are given the role of an evil character, let us not promote evil, rather take the people back into the embryo of evil, and tell, how it was created, why it was created, who was its progenitor, and who nurtured it in the womb of life?
It often disturbs me to think why goodness is so ineffective. Although there are so many people who are votaries of good, and so many who are visiting shrines and praying to gods day and night, yet finally, what prevails in this world is not truth, nor goodness. It is evil that has the last laugh. But, we need to remember, only the last, not the final. There is a laugh which pasts every other laugh. And it is the laugh of truth. ‘Kood nikhute Nanaka, Odak sach Rahi,’ says the great sage, Guru Nanak Dev [Truth will finally prevail, outlasting untruth]
Home: The Nursery of Crime
Love, which is blind is the nursery of crime. A boy commits a crime. When mother does not check him out of love, or father does not stop him forcefully, it is an indirect inducement to the child. If in the foundation of a good life, is a mother’s ardent wish to make her child a decent person, in the same foundation, you will find the saplings of evil, if the child grows up in a divided family, like an orphan. Don’t grow children if you have no time for them. The architecture of crime is designed in the family at home itself. Crime is always homegrown. It is never transplanted or imported.
The Ethical Take: The Dying Declaration
This world, which has been created by the Truthful One, is also true, says the Guru. It is neither ‘maya’, nor illusion. The Guru says: ‘all the regions of the earth and the sky are truthful’. Therefore, in our lives, let us nibble at that truth, live it, and live for it although truth is a dangerous path to tread, while Evil is tempting and very docile. Going down the hill is very comforting.
Let us listen to the slow whispers of every dying man before he descends into the grave. Life is short. Joys are few. If you want peace, look for the excesses you have done, fouls you have played, and ask for forgiveness from whosoever you have hurt. Let us live even lives. And keep our God in constant remembrance.
Dr Jernail Singh Anand, President of the International Academy of Ethics, is author of 161 books in English poetry, fiction, non-fiction, philosophy and spirituality. He was awarded Charter of Morava, the great Award by Serbian Writers Association, Belgrade and his name was engraved on the Poets’ Rock in Serbia. The Academy of Arts and philosophical Sciences of Bari [Italy] honoured him with the award of an Honourable Academic. Recently, he was awarded Doctor of Philosophy [Honoris Causa] by the University of Engg and Management, Jaipur. Recently, he organized an International Conference on Contemporary Ethics at Chandigarh. His most phenomenal book is Lustus:The Prince of Darkness [first epic of the Mahakaal Trilogy].
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