Relationships – Building blocks

 

 If you ask me the greatest question, why the human being is evolving or devolving? The only answer I can give is by making relations. Relationships are always an important rather vital part of human beings. In my opinion, human beings cannot be easily evolved without having relation. The term relation here is not necessarily the relation between two persons or many persons. It can be anything that binds you to something, like a rope tied onto a bull, and it, in turn, is hooked to a pole to keep itself from running away.

Human success verily depends on the way he deals with relations. There are many instances in our evolutionary stories of how it was important for humans to take forward their course of life. In Ramayana, Dasaratha's wife wanted Rama (Stepson) to exile to crown her son as a king. Here, one can observe the selfish trait that the relation has imposed on Kaikeyi to make her son the ruler and crown him as the king. Nevertheless, her son Bharatha did not accept the crown for his loyalty to the king. Similarly, there is every possibility to Rama for denying his father's order (Dasaratha). However, the relationship between the son and father makes Rama accept the father's order and go into exile. It is always surprising if the selfish trait of Kaikeyi was never shown and it did not break through the Rama going into exile, and the whole Ramayana story might not have happened the way we now read. 

We can learn from the above situation that every relationship spills all kinds of fluids, and it is the relationship with ourselves that makes us accept that fluid that is suitable for us. It can be poison or elixir. If the relationship with the self is pure and positive, the fluid will turn out to be an elixir, and one can become Rama. Otherwise, if the relationship with the self is chaotic, negative, and demeaning, the fluid would turn into poison and make you dangerous.

- Prithvi Sangani