Fear From Freedom

A peacock and a Bird Mynah  lived in a garden. The two had a very close friendship. Be it day or night, work or rest, both used to take time out to meet.

Their friendship used to add more color during the rainy season. When the peacock started dancing by spreading its colorful feathers in cloudy weather, Bird Mynah would start singing. In the season, the joy would spread all around.

In those days the son of  that garden’s owner had come to visit. Seeing the captive mingling of peacock and the Bird Mynah, he was stunned. Now that child would sometimes come to the garden to see both of them.

Here the peacock was the lover of weather, the lover of cloud. He danced only when the cloud covered the sky. Because of this, the child had to wait a long time. But to please the child, Bird Mynah  used to imitate his voice exactly.

The child was happy to see the Bird Mynah  imitating his voice like this. He would repeatedly speak to the Bird Mynah  and Mynah would imitate him. In this way Mynah got closer to the child and his distance from the peacock kept increasing.

Peacock repeatedly tried to convince  Mynah to stop copying others' voices, but Bird Mynah  turned a deaf ear to the advise of his friend. The peacock continued on its nature of loving the weather, loving the cloud and Bird Mynah kept trying to please that child by imitating his voice.

With the passage of time the child grew up. He had to go away from the village to a big town  to further  study. But he was fond of Bird Mynah  so much that he could not imagine living alone without him.

The boy started insisting on his father to take that Bird Mynah also with him. After all, how many times could the father refuse. So his father made allowed his son to carry the Bird Mynah with him  , but for the safety of Bird Mynah, he kept him in a cage. No one could harm Myna in the cage. Bird Mynah’s  safety was also to be taken care of.

Bird Mynah  had to pay the price for copying another. By the time Bird Mynah  realized his mistake, it was too late. Feeling sad, Bird Mynah had to stay in the cage.

It is said that time heals every wound. When Bird Mynah  left, the peacock kept on shedding tears for some time. But for how many days? Life does not go on by shedding tears.

It was necessary to work hard to eat food. The peacock had to come out to live. The hunger of a sinful stomach makes everything forget. Peacock got busy with his life. Slowly everything became normal.

Here Bird Mynah  also kept on adapting himself  with the changing times. Initially, Bird Mynah  also felt bad to be tied in a cage. He used to remember the day of independence. Remembering the days spent with the peacock.

When the clouds covered the sky, the peacock used to dance like his own feather and sing, wow what a moment. When the whole sky used to be the home of both of them. No one was there to stop them.

Now his whole world was confined within the wall of the cage. Bird Mynah  had realized that the old days are not going to come back. So why not adopt the life of a cage.

So forgetting the old days, now he started focusing on the good things of the new life. Now without any hard work, Bird Mynah  would get food on time. Now he could not be killed by any carnivorous animal. With the passage of time, Bird Mynah  now felt quite secure inside the cage.

And what he was supposed to do for this, just wag his tail at the behest of his master and imitate his voice in front of his friends. And in return he got the love and admiration of his master. After all, what else did he need?

Time was flying with wings. Soon the education of that child was completed. After completing his degree, he had to return home. When he returned to his home, he also brought that Bird Mynah  with him.

After a long time, when the peacock heard the voice of his friend, his happiness knew no bounds. When he immediately reached his master's house, he saw that Bird Mynah  was making them laugh by imitating the voice of that child.

The peacock hid and waited for the night so that he could meet  Mynah alone. At night, when the owner's child went to sleep, the peacock approached  Mynah after getting an opportunity to inquire.

When  Mynah met his friend after so many days, both of them had tears in their eyes. After taking care of each other,  Mynah asked the peacock that why the owner's child has kept him in this cage, why not the peacock?

Peacock replied, Man likes the slavery of society, country, religion, caste, history, family and does not know whose slave and compels others to live in the same way. Whoever a man likes, he gets to control it.

Only for the sake of name, a man fights for freedom, but the real fight is not for freedom, in fact man's fight is to enslave and get slaved in his own way.

Look, my brother, the peacock further said, man does not want to live in freedom but in a chain made by himself. You imitated man, man drew a cage line for you too.

Well leave all these things too. The peacock further excitedly said to Mynah, now the time has come to break down the line drawn by the man. Come on friend, the whole sky is waiting for you again. Let’s come out of the cage.

Saying this the peacock opened the cage door and asked  Mynah to accompany him. Peacock thought Mynah  would not let this golden opportunity pass by. He thought that both would be able to sing and dance together in the open sky.

But alas, contrary to the peacock's expectation,  Mynah closed the cage door hesitatingly. In a single day, the peacock felt both immense joy and immense despair. Bird Mynah, with folded hands  requested  the peacock to return.

Bird Mynah said, Brother, because of being in the cage for so long, the habit of flying has gone. The second thing is that even drinking food in the cage is easily available. I am happy here brother. You go back to the garden. And yes sometimes keep coming to meet me.

The peacock returned to the garden with a smile. The peacock was laughing. It was clearly visible to him that due to living with man for so long time, maybe even my friend Mynah has also developed affinity for slavery.

Man can neither live alone nor allows others to be alone. Like a man, his friend Bird Mynah was also afraid of freedom. To fly in the open sky, after all, one has to bear the dangers of the sky too.

Ajay Amitabh Suman: All Rights Reserved

Judiciary as a tool for injustice

First, let us clarify what Passover and adjournment are all about. In reality, when an advocate has numerous cases in one day, he cannot attend to all of them at the same time. Naturally, in the case where he is appearing in one case, in the other matter he has to ask for an adjournment.

And pass over is also a similar kind of concept. The Hon'ble Judges take up their cases in series. If an advocate is appearing in another court on another matter, he may ask for a pass over. In that situation, after finishing the complete list of cases, the Hon'ble Judges take up the pass over matter.

Both these concepts have been incorporated into the Judiciary in order to ease the justice delivery mechanism. But actually, what is happening today can be understood from the facts narrated here below.

One day, I was waiting for my case to come. My matter was down the list , so I had no other option but to wait for my turn. I was observing the other court case.

I witnessed one child custody case. The advocate from the wife's side was asking for a pass over. This request was vehemently opposed by the husband's side. When I paid attention to the contention of the husband's advocate, the true picture that emerged was that the matter was listed for argument on the issue of custody of their son.

My husband was residing in London. He was a British citizen. His visa was going to expire in 4 days. So he had to return to London to resume his job. Many matters were listed before the Court on that day. Following the launch, the Court was divided into two parts to hear cases. As a result, once the pass was granted, there was every chance that the matter would not reach. After that, there was a one-week holiday.

The consequence of Passover was that , once Passover was granted, the issue of child custody could not have been decided. This was the reason the advocate from the husband's side was opposing that Passover vehemently. In spite of vehement opposition by the lawyer from the husband's side, the Court had no option but to grant the pass over.

And as expected, the matter could not be reached after launch. The lawyer from the wife's side was able to secure the relief for his client as the child was living with the wife and the issue of child custody remained undecided. The husband had to go back to London empty-handed.

The problem with Passover and adjournment is that there has not been any law or regulation to control this tendency of Passover and adjournment. This is why advocates use this instrumentality of pass and adjournment as a tool to secure interest in favor of their respective clients.

Although requesting a pass over and adjournment is not illegal. This concept has been part and parcel of the judiciary across the world. But there has to be some curb on it. This should not be abused by advocates in order to protect their client's interests.

A few of the legal practices that have been used to cause injustice are pass over and adjournment. There has to be some mechanism so that proper utilization of pass and adjournment can be ensured.

No one can disturb you

One office assistant was busy carrying his file and putting it in the right place. He was trying to accomplish his task as soon as possible.

 

He was very enthusiastic and always propmpt in discharching his task. But there is thin but a very huge difference in discharging one's task promptly and finishing the task perfectly.

 

It has always been seen that the one, who prefers to accomplish his job quickly, always commits few mistakes. In order to finish the job quickly , it is highly probable that few mistakes may crop in.

 

It has rarely been seen that a work done in a hasty manner, comes out flawless. It is very rare combination that one who does his work hastily, is not prone to mistakes.

 

That office assistant was also not exception to this. His nature of performing his taks quickly aften results in silly mistakes.

 

This was but natural that his colleagues would envy with him. It happened many times that he used to finish the tasks, which normally require two office assistants to finish the job.

 

And what could be natural result of this. Off course jealously and inferiority complex amongst his colleagues.

 

His colleagues often used to taunt him and he often used to retaliate. His colleagues were busy in pointing out his silly mistakes and in the reply, he used to laugh at them at their slow pace of discharching their job.

 

But thing is that one strong man can not fight together with many weak persons. One man can not prevail upon others person if they come together.

 

In this office game of criticism and counter criticism, that office assistant alwyas found himself to be lone ranger. No one used to support him.

 

One day he was sitting in depressed mood. As usual ,his colleagues have left his calm unsettled by hurling at him lots of taunt and naughty remarks.

 

The Senior officer was observing him from distance. He tried to console him. That office assistant asked as to why no body likes him? He never thought any thing ill against any body. Still most of colleagues are busy laughing at him. What could be remedy of that?

 

The office answered: look , you give them an opportunity to others for this. All of your colleagues are not as efficient as you are, so this is but natural that they do not like you.

 

They are suffering from inferiority complex. This is but natural that they will taunt you. Important thing is this that how you are handling this situation.

 

You are disturbed not because of them, but because you have given them an opportunity to disturb you.

 

And remedy is simple, very simple. Stop reacting to their comment. Just be indifferent towards their taunt. Do not react.

 

If you stop reacting to their comment,for 

how long they can continue with their misbehaviour? 

 

After all there is limit of every thing. Why you are making your self slaves to their comments. Instead of utilizing you energy on reacting to their taunt, it would be better if you focuss on correcting your mistakes.

 

He patted on the shoulder of that office assistant and left the office. The office assistant was watching him leaving the office, with thankful eyes. After all the lesson of life he had learnt.

We can not change the time but our self we can

 

Once, conflict was going on between the husband and his wife. When his mother visited them, the husband complained that his wife did not treat her well.

While his wife brought up a similar concern. The wife was upset because her husband had not treated her with respect in past. According to her, she simply reciprocated.

Both of them have since become adamant in their positions. The relationship suffered as a result.

One day, one of the wife's elderly relatives paid them a visit.

Despite their best efforts to maintain their relationship as natural as possible, her uncle was able to see through their attempts at camouflage.

The uncle attempted to comprehend the issue while they had breakfast. Soon, the husband and wife began accusing one another of the wrongdoings they had previously committed against one another.

Her uncle recognized the issue. He started saying that stressing that there was nothing we could do about what had already transpired. Time has just one direction.

Time always goes in one direction, from the past to the present and from the present to the future.

The passage of time cannot ever be turned around. No matter how hard one tries, one thing is certain, one cannot travel back in time.

We have control over the present time only. God has not provided us with the ability to travel back in time. We can not correct the errors that we have made in the past.

We can only memorize our past, which is the only choice we have. Either we can forgive the I'll deeds and there by can improve our relationship, or we can spoil our relation ship by memorizing the I'll deeds done in past. Why not to use the better option!

The issue has been fixed. Young couple have realized that remembering past ill actions won't get them anywhere. Correcting them is better. The uncle was smiling, as were the husband and wife.

They now know that it is pointless to continually bring up wrongdoings from the past. The key to their relationship improving was greater memory.

It is better to use the present to improve one's own future rather than memorizing the negative past.

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