Ideologies that we follow throughout our life, is what makes us. Every person is a result of what he/she sees, learns and implements in life. People have a tendency of judging, they start judging you from the moment they see you and they continue to judge your every action on the basis of their own respective ideologies. What we fail to understand is that anything good or evil is with respect to the ideologies. Now consider this for a scenario that different people have different takes on life, someone has a habit of helping others before anything else, if for someone his family comes first or for someone all that matters is probably materialistic. In this case these three people will have different approach towards the choices that they make in life and the difference between the goodness and evilness in them would be defined in relation to each other.
Now if we consider that you are an ethical and moral person, then the idea is to follow what you think is right and be honest in your own approach because you become evil when you stop following what you think is right. Differences in stories we hear, ideologies we inculcate, thinking we acquire make all the difference in our lives. It’s Dussehra and we are supposed to celebrate the victory of good over evil. But it was never a fight of good or evil but of differences in ideologies. Both the warriors were beholder of powerful souls, strong minds and infinite knowledge. Both were good leaders, spiritual beings and most loved among their people.
Yet it was a vengeance gone wrong, the urge of revenge that didn’t go quite well for the Ravana. If we look at Ravana, he was a man of honour, a bearer of an excellent character, a wise king and undoubtedly a loving brother. He was well versed with the Vedas, was an ethical, moral and modest person. Any misconduct or breach of modesty by him would have shown otherwise.
The stature of Lord Ram is not something very easy to follow and the society will fail trying to be Lord Ram. It is very easy for us to worship someone but to follow the footsteps of their life and to make the choices they made is something which is quite unrealistic to achieve. Because it was easy for us to differentiate between the hero and the villain in the story, we did the differentiation but we failed to understand that we should have applied a few of the aspects of the hero that we made in our lives.
The kind of environment that we are living in today and the kind of people that we have become, if we are unable to become Lord Ram we should at least try to be more like Ravana, because even if we consider him evil he was at least not as evil as we have become today.
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