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| Kashmir Floods: Yasin Malik, stone pelters act like "scorpion", Army like "monk" | | | Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, Sept 23: While by abusing and stoning their saviours in the inundated Valley, JKLF's Yasin Malik and a handful of other unscrupulous elements acted like the scorpion, Army religiously followed the dharma of kindness, purity, giving and caring by continuing with its rescue operations in the flood-hit Kashmir.
The scorpion and the monk story is handed down by tradition from earlier times. The monk lived on the banks of a river. One day when he went to the river to bathe, he noticed a scorpion struggling in the water. Scorpions cannot swim and the monk knew that if he did not save the scorpion, it would drown. Carefully wading through the water, he picks up the scorpion and brings it to the river bank. While he was going to set it down safely on the land, it stung his finger. When he flung his hand in pain, the scorpion went flying, back into the river. Though he was now writhing with pain, he again attempted to save the scorpion but it stung him again. This continued several times and the monk convulsed with pain with every fresh sting. Every time he tried to rescue it, it stung him before it could be released on land.
A passerby, who watched all this from a distance, asked the monk to just let the scorpion drown as it would continue to sting him each and every time he tries to save him. The sadhu replied: "The scorpion certainly bears me no malice. Just like water's nature is to make anything wet, scorpion's nature is to sting. Just like scorpion's nature is to sting, my nature is to save. It is not realising that I am its saviour and my intentions are not to harm it. The poor creature is not blessed with the brain to understand it but the almighty God has given me the brain to understand all this. My dharma is to rescue any creature when it is in trouble. It took me years of meditation to refine my mind and feelings. I cannot allow a small scorpion to rob me of my divine nature."
Slowly the Kashmiri separatists have also reached a point where they don't realise that their thoughts and actions are becoming the cause of a problem for the innocent people who are not even remotely connected to their hidden agenda. Their hearts and minds are so gravely darkened that they don't realise that they are injuring innocent people by their malice, deceit, selfishness and indifference.
Malik, like the other pro-Pak valley separatists, completely failed in offering any relief or words of sympathy to the people in distress in the Valley. The heavily swollen Jhelum river had burst its banks, inundating thousands of houses in Srinagar. The affected people had lost all their belongings, including items of daily use and food. Everything was submerged by the flood waters and they were not left with even the minimum levels of drinking water and eatables needed to keep themselves alive. The separatists, who have since decades been posing as the valleyites' lone well-wishers, remained conspicuous by their absence. Had they lent a helping hand to the people, who had lost all hopes of life, they could have perhaps made a permanent place for them in their hearts. But they have missed the bus and their condition is now that of the embarrassed cat scratching a pillar.
When all, including the State Government, failed, Army, NDRF and Air Force appeared on the scene as their saviours. The valiant troops, led by their officers from the front, took in their hands the gigantic task of saving nearly two lakh precious human lives which they accomplished with flying colours. But the Army's success became indigestible for Malik when he on September 13 last unsuccessfully tried to derail the forces' relief and rescue operations. In his effort to occupy some space in news, as he had been totally out of picture since the devastating floods ravaged Srinagar, he forced some ailing women to get off an Army relief boat despite the stiff resistance offered by locals. Soon thereafter, troops, who were evacuating people to safer places, were stoned by the miscreants.
The Malik's uncalled for action and the stone-pelters' move to target the saviours of people with stones were felt to be aimed at provoking them for the purpose of maligning their image. But the troops foiled their wicked designs by maintaining cool and remaining focussed only on saving people.
Malik and the miscreants behaved differently to what is normal under such gloomy situations. They targeted their saviours - Army, NDRF and Air Force - with stones in return for the good work the latter were doing for them. Instead of being thankful to the armed forces for having saved the lives of nearly two lakh Kashmiris by putting their own lives in danger, they stoned them. No sensible human being would behave like this. How can they think of doing so? Before doing so, did they think for a while what will have happened to the lakhs of Kashmiris, who were trapped in the flood waters, had Army, NDRF and Air Force not been there? They can certainly be not the well-wishers of these trapped people.
The stone-pelters of Kashmir, who were booked by police in the past, were later rewarded with Government jobs. Those, who stoned the rescue teams in the Valley, must have thought that their work would also be "appreciated" and rewarded with Government jobs. The onus now lies on the law enforcing agencies to book them under the law of the land. It remains a fact that without the troops' help, many people may not have survived the deluge in the Valley.
Let the darkness in the hearts of separatists be not allowed to penetrate into the light of the hearts of innocent valleyites. |
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