Naratha Muni have found a celestial mango fruit and brought
to Lord Shiva to share with his children Ganesha and Murga, the two son gods. Lord Shiva would like the mango to be shared equally
between brothers, but Naratha had another idea.
He suggested a running race for brothers to encircle the universe and
the fruit will be given to the one who can come first. It was fascinating and thrilling to both gods
and competition begins. While Muruga
jumped on his famous rider, the peacock, Ganesha with huge body and elephant
face knows that he cannot match his brother’s agility, and decided to use his
mind by posing a wonderful question to Lord Shiva.
‘Is not Lord Shiva the universe?’ Lord Shiva amazed with the
intelligence of Ganesha and has certainly affirmed with him. Ganesha just took
a simple walk around of Lord Shiva and won the competition. After making exhaustive circum of universe
with his peacock, Murga disappointed to witness that Ganesha already enjoying
the mango treat. The rest is a great
epic in Tamil religious history. The epic
revolved around three famous gods of Tamils, but I can derive a perfect example
for ‘survival of fittest’.
Entire mankind is in unparalleled race and trying to unseat
each others. Most of the individuals
have the propensity imbibed in their hearts and minds to treat others as his or
her potential enemies or obstacles to their growth. Success at the expense of others is the order
of contemporary life and people travel to any length to cut down others for no
obvious enmity.
We simply accept the norms without looking at the veracity
of basic stimuli, the ‘survival of fittest’ that made the world become ‘mad’ at
each other. The proponent of survival of
fittest is derived to engage humans to a new level of talent acquisition for
self advancements but diligently negated the possibility of collective
progress. The encomium surrounding on
the theory of survival of fittest attracts more followers with less conviction.
Because, the mankind is the best flocks that walks on the order of a shepherd
dreaming that the shepherd will lead them to a worldly achievement and
salvation. We just accept, not
agreed. By just accepting the ‘survival
of fittest’, we legitimize the irreconcilable values and drive ourselves to the
inexplicable bewilderment.
We create a permanent pandemonium in mind due to forced
acceptances and failed to envisage the necessity of agreement. Agreement demand conviction and sadly seldom ready
for the process of conviction.
Conviction demands balance of mind, reasons of existence and rationale
thought process. Do we have the time to
exercise these critical elements? Millions
of issues being carried, executed, diluted, augmented in mind and evaporated in
daily bedlam without being agreed or convinced, yet life goes on. We are in the race without knowing the
target.
Yes, the life goes on either we accept or agreed with
it. It does not wait for anyone. It moves.
It has been intertwined with time.
It has been further disheveled due to our irrational self acclamation
that we only dapping in. We further
divulging our soul towards the darker trench believing that it is enlightening
and providing necessary security. We are
defeating ourselves without even knowing it.
We bend the life the way we want to live and conveniently
forgetting the natural process that is larger than the life structure that we
create and lives in. We are mostly naïve
irrespective of our age, experience, expertise and lock ourselves with the vicious
cycle of our own making. We field
ourselves with inherited trait of ‘the fittest will survive’ and diametrically
opposed the characteristics that are built to propel us. We connect our survival with ever evolving
theory of ‘fitness’ that has been defined by circumstances, thus allowing us to
be controlled by mystifying forces. The
uncontrollable happenings within and outside of our self is the perfect example
of acceptance and not agreement.
Every day we compete, we fail mostly and win sometimes, we
justify and compete again. The cycle
continues viciously and we pass these traits to our children. We let our circumstances to define our life
and we become slaves of it. And we
force our children also to become slaves of circumstances, because, we believe
only fittest will survive. The concept
and theory of ‘survival of fittest’ is to belittle the human dignity and
enslave the weak to strong and to free the strong from any accountability. The survival of fittest theory was to create
a world order that favours the advantageous group that are already in power and
permanently disallowing the weak any genuine opportunities or forcing to pay
the price of being weak.
An artificial intelligence was created with strong
mobilization to disintegrate the people in the name of competition. The artificial intelligence is an
intellectual product of strong to permanently keep them in advantageous
position. Further, the strong dictates
and defines the nature and level of competition aided by the blades of
cunningness, thus preventing the natural intelligence from any growth. In fact, the natural intelligence is
effectively replaced with artificial intelligence.
Every child is blessed with natural intelligence and it is
the duty of parents, teachers, society and country to aid the natural
intelligence to grow, function and mature.
The natural intelligence plays amicable role in life offering wider
control on every individual to perform their role in satisfaction of its
Creator. The natural intelligence
beautifies the life, because it is balanced and not forcing the individual to
race against time. Natural intelligence
allows the mankind to travel with time, nature and enjoy the life. Natural intelligence offers space to everyone
and never punishes the weak; rather lend a helping hand to lift them to higher
level. Human beings are created with
certain advantages and disadvantages, not to create the theory of ‘survival of
fittest’ but to enforce the noble theory of co-creation for a collective
journey in achieving supremacy.
The world is not to compete, but co-create and cooperate. Replace the survival of fittest with natural
intelligence to co-create and cooperate for a better world where the strong is
the servant of weak, not a master.
