A Short Treatise on Human Nature...(Part 2)

This is the second and concluding part of the 'treatise'...

This ‘nature’ that we are talking about is a highly complex subject. It is a study in contradictions. It is the cause as well as, to the certain extent, the effect behind all the evil or good in the world, because we can think, we can analyse and come to conclusions. We are ambitious and it is our nature that some times permits us to be ruthless in our pursuits. This nature of ours, I believe is an embodiment of the much larger Nature that we all are part of we create and destroy within our capacities, just like our larger counter part does.

But if our nature is nothing but a smaller, more confined version of Nature, then wherefrom do the various global problems of poverty, human rights violation, pollution hazards, torture, extortion, etc arise? These shouldn’t be problems at all; as a matter of fact, these should contribute to the maintenance of nature’s delicate balance. But, obviously, this is not the case, so what is the problem?

Ah! All said and done, there is but one point that we have overlooked, that has led to the above contradiction. I just mentioned on the previous page that man’s nature is a Smaller, more Confined version of Nature. Here lies our solution.

Man, most of the times, forgets the above and almost always tries to override nature. The problems arise when we trespass into that territory which is the exclusive domain of nature. We are always trying to match our forces with that of our larger counterpart. We do not understand that when we murder, deceive and torture our fellow humans; when we cut down forests and say “what the hell!”, we are not asserting our supremacy over anything, leave alone nature. If at all we are doing anything, we are murdering, deceiving and torturing ourselves; we are cutting ourselves down.

I do not say that man was meant to create Utopia, but at least we should have self- respect and a better understanding of our ‘confines’. Without deceiving into the supernatural (primarily because, it is yet another debateable topic), one can safely say that we have no right to call ourselves civilised, if we can’t learn to accept our limitations and respect our creator. Don’t you think 40,000 yrs on this planet is long enough for us to realise that we should stop behaving like spoilt brats having no respect for their parents and who are prepared to insult and abuse them at the slightest instant. Even that spoilt child is better than us, who are prepared to defile without even the slightest hint of provocation.

It’s high time, that young child’s queries regarding, life, existence, creation and goodness, were heeded; enough questions have been discouraged, enough curiosities trampled upon, it’s time we started the healing process before it gets too late. The problem is not that mans nature is bad; the problem is just that we have plainly forgotten our boundaries.

We need to draw the line again, so that we may have time to solve the problem at hand before giving on to the next; so that more questions are answered rather than left unanswered; so that man’s life becomes more coherent; so that I Roop Kumar Bhadury, aged 19 years, would no longer feel strange about writing about us humans, so that those people who have thoughts like I had at the beginning, would not hesitate to put them on paper, so that the world as a whole would have a better more refreshing look about it; so that all spoilt brats learn to respect their creator.

Hope you all enjoyed the concluding part...

New piece next week folks...

Cheers,
Roop Kumar Bhadury aka Babumoshai

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