I derive pleasure, sitting on my laptop; you derive it sitting in front of a TV, someone else you know may derive it going across the malls and shop their purse out. If I ask you, that whether you derive pleasure when you spoke truth or were honest; everyone will surely answer in affirmation. Now if I ask you whether you were always honest till date, some of you may not be able to answer it quickly as a firm 'Yes'. I am a definite 'No'. I did pay money to a traffic constable for not wearing the car seat belt. The excuse inside my mind was clear that I wanted to reach my home quickly to take my wife to a doctor. I did spend a few bucks extra to travel in a reserved compartment, because I had to reach the destination for my official duty or my job would have been at stake. I had a mental
justification for every such episode.
Is there something called absolute Honesty. Is honesty often driven by convenience and circumstances? I have read that behaviour scientists have even mathematically proved that people are always selfish. One can read the works of George R. Price on altruism. Are we just a toy, driven by a remote control of some super power, which controls our actions? Can we give easy excuses for not being honest? Can we take the convenient route and break the law? All these questions are not new, which are coming to my mind only. They must have come to everyone's mind many-many times. All of us have a hidden power to come out of such dilemmas. Our upbringing, our environment and our self control power do have the power to handle this. Doing things out of convenience could have become our habit. We are often slaves of our habit. Compromises are often not compulsions. We need to learn to introspect. Learning the law is necessary but law of the heart is probably much more powerful.
Dr. Sunil Ji Garg
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