A man from the stars came here as a silent person. He transferred a language and started asking some basic questions. We felt disturbed and started asking him to keep silent. Man-made religions and many of their preachers only know how to talk, they can’t listen. Asking questions in front of these self-made preachers is a form of ridiculing their beliefs. Tolerance is something they can preach, but they are not supposed to practice.
We have heard the ‘Blue Jackal’ story from ‘Panchtantra’ many times. For some of you who have never read this masterpiece, I recall this here. A hungry Jackal went in search of food to a village close to his jungle. While the village dogs chased him, he fell into a drum filled with blue dye. He turned completely blue and looked like a different breed. When he returned to the jungle, the lion asked him who he was and in response he declared himself as Chandru - protector of all the animals in the jungle. Chandru told the lion that he would only continue to protect the jungle if all the animals would give him food. Soon Chandru was sought after for advice by animals from other jungles. Animals sat at his feet and brought him the best of food. But as happens every year, the rains came, and slowly the blue dye vanished. He was just a normal jackal again. The animals soon realised this and then punished the jackal to death.
The story comes from our own land that alerts us against the ‘fear psychosis techniques’ used by some self labeled protectors. The movie PK tells us this simple story in a quite harmless and humorous way. Are we such an intolerant society that we want to make an expansion of PK as “Please Keep silent”.
Dr. Sunil Ji Garg
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