11 Dec 2005 @ 05:21, by Shreepal Singh
Indeed, mankind is replete with many kinds of striking diversities. Even at any one given single place, this diversity among people is amazing. But, despite all these colossal diversities, mankind is essentially similar. This similarity is her endowment with the faculty of mind with its love of truth. Our realisation of fragile and unique position that we occupy in the known universe also creates in us the sense of unity of mankind among her much secondary diversity.
So far as we know today, there is only one place under the heaven, our home our earth, where we human beings live our lives. We are one kind of intelligent beings crammed in a tiny and lonely place amidst the hugely vast expanse of universe's desert that is stubbornly barren to any kind of life. This must generate not a sense of pride of place among us, but a sense of our vulnerability to the unknown and fear for our stable future. In turn the sense of vulnerability and fear should dawn on us our commonality of fate and destiny. But we choose to remain oblivious to our common fate and destiny. As if to make ourselves forget the onerous tasks pending for mankind's urgent attention ahead, we humans indulge in hooliganism, raising false cries here and going gung-ho in pursuit of wrong judgements there. We throw the dust of self-indulgence at the wakefulness of mankind, pelt the stones of petty interests at her prudent warning and raise the clouds of doubts to eclipse her urge for eternal truth.
Mankind is one but has many peoples whose ideals, steeped in diverse beliefs and thoughts, follow vastly different trajectories. Beliefs and thoughts always have certain foundation and force behind them. They represent a part of the whole truth and show a part of the beauty that human life is. Diversity of thoughts, however irreconcilable and contradictory they may be, is necessary to complete the whole truth of life.
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