Bharatiyas believe in lion-ics not politics!
By Vivek Sharma
Don’t allow politics to be part of your life. Instead give room to neeti—direct, positive and progressive strategy to succeed. Political reasoning is like a pack of wolves chasing a lion’s game! They may have a few bites in the beginning, but the lion has his share in the end and all wolves scoot away. Remember this!
Man can cage a lion. But, a lion remains a lion—straight, strong, direct, non-interfering till you finger him. Our country has produced many such lions. Prince Bharat, son of Dushyant and Shakuntala, played with lions during his childhood. We have taken it as a mythological story and ignored the great principle it teaches. The real education is the education from right associations. You unconsciously learn from who you associate with. If your associations are doubting Thomases, negative-minded weaklings, you will unconsciously become weak and spread doubts, conflicts and negativities all around. If you associate with the brave, intelligent and the right-minded, you will gradually become that and spread that around. There is another principle hidden in the Bharat story—if you have no fear of lions, the lion won’t harm you, if you have no fear of cobras, the cobras won’t harm you. Your fear triggers a response from the lion and the cobras! Because fear is nothing but telling lions and cobras that “I am not yours and you are not mine—I don’t belong to you and you don’t belong to me”. That is against the natural principle of oneness—community! When shall we learn this and practise it. Be fearless! That means being one with the universe like Shiva—cobras around His neck, bulls being His vehicle, spirits making His family, and His power, His wife riding the lion, the tiger and all animals. They all belong to Shiva because He belongs to them. The mother of all politics is fear and insecurity! You are the descendants of Bharat—the followers of lion-ics! Practise lion-ics and not politics.