Mohammad
AsifReyaz
My experiment
with truth is an autobiography by Mahatma Gandhi. This autobiography was
originallywritten inGujratiand translated into English by Mahadev Desai. The first
edition of this autobiography was published in 1927.
In 1999, the book was designated as one of the "100
Best Spiritual Books of the 20th Century" by a committee of global
spiritual and religious authorities.
In
the chapter “Childhood” Gandhiji hasnarrated avery interesting story.This story goes
like this.
“There
is an incident which occurred at the examination during my first year at the
high school and which is worth recording. Mr Giles, the educational inspector,
had come on a visit of inspection. He had set us five words to write as
spelling exercise. One of the words was “Kettle”. I had misspelt it. The
teacher tried to prompt me with the point of his boot, but I would not be
prompted. It was beyond me to see that he wanted me to copy the spelling from
my neighbour’s slate, for I had thought that the teacher was there to supervise
us against copying. The result was that all the boys, exceptmyself, were found
to have spelt every word correctly. Only I had been stupid. I never could learn
the art of copying”.
Gandhi
ji was an innovative man. In every situation, good or bad,Gandhiji used to come
up with his owninvented ideas and thoughts. In this context he was purely aleader
by birth. His stupidity was in fact his power.
One
who knows the art of copying never knows the art of living as a victor. Avictor
is he who keeps his originality and avoids imitating. A man is always great but his greatness falls
when he starts imitating every Tom, Dick and Harry.
An eagle
never imitates. It comes with its own planning and ideas and always proved to
be a victor. You have to create the spirit of eagle in you, so that you could
do what you are supposed to do here. The great poet and philosopher Iqbal has
described the characteristic of Eagle
(Shahin)
in this way.
NahiTeraNashemanQasar-e-Sultani Kay Gumbad
Par; TuShaheenHaiBasairaKarPaharonkiChaton Par (Allama M. Iqbal)
You will never see an eagle eating
meat that it did not kill. An eagle is not a scavenger. It hunts for and kills
its own food. It hunts for the prey while it's warm and alive. In other words
Eagle never imitates. It saves its natural power.
GandhijiSaved
his natural power and avoided copying, thus becoming Mahatma of the world.
What
I want to say guy! I want to say that learn not to copy, try your own ideas,
for a man can never become a supermanif he is merely a copycat. As it is said
all the greats took chances and developed their
ownstyle. They didn’t copy.What is copying? Copying is killing. It is
destroying self.
Save
yourself, try your own original ways. There is a mahatma in you if youcoulddiscover.
Dear Asif Bhai,
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The moment I started reading your piece, a lightning struck across my head that you are hinting at our journalist fraternity, who have so conveniently adapted to the "Art of Googly".
Darwin, if alive today would have committed suicide, because it not survival of the fittest, but “survival of the opportunist”. The one who adapts to "Googly" flourishes and moves up the ladder. While people with genuine, original ideas are not allowed to work even.
Thanks, God willing we will co-oprate each other for the good of world
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