Sparking Life

I read it somewhere once, “What units is religion, what divides is sin.” These days, people are talking a lot about trivial issues like Marathi vs. non-Marathi and making a mount out of a tiny mole. They say certain place belong to them, exclusively to them only. But does a place belong to anyone? Does the air and water of that place belong to anyone? What makes one think that one owns a place?

Those who oppose this concept say it is against our constitution. But before that, isn’t it in opposition with common sense? One might and should feel that extraordinary sense of gratitude for the place where one lives. It is quite natural and human to feel so. And this overwhelming gratitude brings love and understanding toward the needs of others. But if something evokes the feeling of exclusion, the attitude of only-me-and-mine, it can be greed or selfishness mixed with fear but not the gratitude.

Both in support and opposition have their own logics, but shouldn’t logic follow heart? It may be all economical as those who live there are deprived of jobs due to outsiders; in that case should it not be solved through understanding the problem with a heart with warmth and mind with openness to understand the root cause. I doubt people have the time to do all this and therefore they want a quick fix solution through violence and hatred.