Hurt - punishment - Reform -Part 2

“Criminals”. The very moment we utter this word we are filled with hatredness.but why? Why this particular word does create so much of anger and resentment in us?

As per dictionary, “criminals” means a person who committed a crime; and crime means an offence against an individual or the state which is punishable by law.

Everybody in this world wants success, love, happiness, and power. The more wealth you have, the more success and power you have, the happier you are. If we like something, we should possess it. If it’s in anybody else’s possession by hook or by crook we make it ours. And this hook or crook leads to an action of crime, and the person becomes criminal. In order to satisfy our greed, we cheat, lie, threaten, Kill, and commit many other severe offences. When a person shows this kind of a behavior or action, it hurts us, and the hurt is too deep inside, which becomes hatred ness in us, and we tag them criminals. Our love, our compassion towards them dies. We show them no mercy. We punish them for their sin and we do. We wish to sentence them to death. We wish to extinct those criminals from our world .so we keep them away from our society. We discard them from our world as if they are some alien to us.

But does that fulfill the purpose of punishment? Does that bring about a change in them for good? Does that reform them?
No. instead of healing their bitterness, their resentment, punishment ignites it more in them. Their loneliness adds more to their pain, and it grows into hatredness.now their thoughts that came into action unintentionally becomes intentional. They commit more and more offences. It becomes a deep belief in them; a habit and an innocent person who unintentionally happened to commit a crime in his sub consciousness, becomes a hard core criminal.

Considering a very recent case of child shoot out in some school in gurgaon-a small child of 5 years shoot out another kid with his father’s gun in school. Immediately police was called in, and the child was arrested. We tagged him criminal. We labeled a 5 year kid as criminal. Great counselors were called in for the counseling of the children who witnessed the incident.
But who was in need of this counseling the most?
The child who killed another kid.
Were he given proper attention, care and counseling by the people?
No.
During counseling it was noticed that with every wrong action towards us from anyone, creates hatred ness towards him. At times this hatred ness is so strong that we feel like killing the person. The thought of killing is in so many of us. Infact in all of us. Aren’t we all criminals? Then why do we only tag people whose thoughts came into action, as criminals.
Why not all?

The child was going through a severe pain, loneliness, resentment, which made him do so. He was in an immediate need of love and compassion. But instead of understanding his state of mind, instead of filling his loneliness and pain with peace and love, we stated hating him. We withdrew ourselves from him and labeled him as a bad person in the society.


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