Inclusiveness
Objectively speaking, this trait doesn’t cost a dime, yet more often than not, people are deterred from practising this in reality. There are often a hell lot of divisions and bifurcations everywhere, and mostly we behave that only those that are in alignment with us can stay, and others can see their way out.
Honestly, I do feel that there is a sense of narrowness attached to this - I mean a person can certainly not have the same political views as mine, but why should I exclude him just because he holds varying views? A similar scenario was highlighted by my mother too, a while back, where she was added into a religious group and then later after a month or so, removed from the group, without any prior intimation.
When I further enquired about the possible reason behind it, she said that chances were since she didn’t share the messages of the group further, she was being removed. I was startled hearing this when I further said that what was the purpose of adding her there in the first place?
She was without answers and so was I. At a time when there is so much happening around already, especially with the invasion of the Taliban in Afghanistan where women have been wailing, protesting in the streets against their horrible rule, I cannot even identify even one reason that would justify this narrow mindedness.
And, all of this for what? Just being and remaining satisfied with how much more the other person has and how less you have? Where does that leave you? Are you anything at all more than a money-making machine?
I do understand that there can be differences at the mental, psychological and intellectual level, but does that mean that you choose to operate out of this narrow self-created space of yours? If so, then what good are you doing to yourself, or society by and large?
At this juncture, I can cite the examples of great leaders our country produced like Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda that taught the world to stay together and served every being from the richest of the rich to the poorest of the poor. They taught us strength, divinity and oneness with every soul.
In one of the books about Gandhiji, the author Ramchandra Guha mentioned that Gandhiji had varied differences of opinion with different scholars and people, and never did I come across any passage that showed that Gandhiji was intolerant towards any of his opponents. This shows how inclusive he was.
If we cannot learn to be inclusive, then I guess we are missing out on a lot in life.
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