Duality: The Inevitability of Conflict

f there was only one human in the world, there would have been no clashes or any struggle.But this is not the case.There exists many people.Many can refer to five Arab or even ten Arab people.Existence if two means duality.In Sanskrit dictionary, duality is defined as a couple.Another definition of duality is a fight.Thus, two and fight, both have become synonyms.So, where there is a two, a fight will necessarily take place.Two makes an implication for two different interests, points of view, thought processes and ways of performing an action.Now, everybody is not intelligent enough to not let a difference in opinions turn into an ideology clash.

Living as two is a life of struggle and that is the biggest trouble.A solution was found-live

An example of a real situation can illustrate this better.In the afternoon, a man was sitting in a room when clouds covered the broad daylight. Somebody suggested the man to read a book.He replied that the darkness in the room won’t let him do so.At that moment somebody handed him a glass of water, which he drank easily.So, drinking water in that limited amount of light was possible while reading small letters in the same amount of light was difficult.

So, events are a matter of relativity.Light and darkness, both can co-exist together.Thus, two seemingly opposing view points and philosophies can also co-exist.In a conflict, one has to establish some sort of adjustment.One who cannot adjust with others, cannot live peacefully in a family.A family is a small unit and provides a small experiment for the practice of non-violence.The one who cannot practice non-violence in a family, cannot be religious in the true sense.Once, a young boy came to me and said- “my father thinks he is religious and so he performs 5-7 samayik per day and spends most of his time with saints but he is the one who fights the most, in our family.If I have to learn how to fight, then why should I go to a religious place?The marketplace is quite

Leave grown-ups, even a four year old lacks the ability to tolerate. If he has an opposing view point of that of others, he would burst with anger. Without accepting and tolerating each other’s weaknesses, incapabilities, states of mind, problems and diseases, how can two people live together? Unless the ability of tolerance is not developed, peaceful co-existence cannot be even imagined.

Today, people have a wrong understanding of tolerance.It does not imply fearfulness or weakness.Instead, it implies great strength.Only a strong person can be tolerant.His holiness, Acharya Tulsi said- an Acharya needs to have a greater ability of tolerance than a muni.When a muni is in anger, an Acharya must necessarily maintain his peace.This is the way of grandiose maturity. Its underlying principle is to sprinkle water on boiling milk so that it does not fall and spoil itself. Only a mature person can be a possessor of such an intellect.If the head of a family is not a tolerant person, the family will see frequent fights, gradually breaking the