Taking Revenge 🔪

     

Is it necessary to take revenge?🔪 What do you achieve by taking revenge on someone? Did you ever question in this way?

You may feel like you gained some kind of happiness by taking revenge. Here, your plan of revenge can most likely be accomplished by making the other person feel the pain which you have gone through it earlier. If you retrospect the process of taking revenge, you may regret for what you have done. Taking revenge is nothing else but hurting someone because you have faced some issues in the past.

The pleasure of accomplishing revenge may not last long. You may have some reasons to justify for taking revenge. Other than taking revenge, the only option left for you is to “let it go” kind of approach. Also, I agree that for every situation forgiving is not the solution. Certain issues may need proper punishment for the traitors. There are some punishments which can be given legally if the pain caused to you is something illegal and if you have proofs.

In simple words, if you are taking revenge, you are intentionally causing pain to someone. No matter what you have gone through in the past, for causing pain to someone, you may have to receive pain in future in similar form or the other. This is the inner meaning of Karma. Karma is one such thing, which will never leave you.

According to Ramayana, Rama had killed “Vali” by hiding behind a tree instead of being an active member in a war which was between two brothers. Vali is the elder brother of Sugriva, Vali and sugriva are identical twins who are fighting for their own reasons. Sugriva felt he is incapable of defeating his elder brother vali, (Vali has some extraordinary skills as god’s gift). To defeat his powerful elder brother, Sugriva sought the help of Lord Rama, so that sugriva would help Rama in finding Sita.

Here, Lord Rama is not supposed to fight, as the fight was between two brothers, Let us assume, Rama was supporting a weak opponent i.e., Sugriva, which is understandable. However, Rama was supposed to involve in the war directly and kill Vali. But, things did not go in that way, Vali and sugriva were involved in the fight and Rama was hiding behind trees aiming his arrow at Vali, thereby Killing Vali which is unjust.

Then, how do you think Karma has justified this?

In the next incarnation of Lord Vishnu, Vali was born as Jara, a hunter and Rama was incarnated as Lord Krishna. In this incarnation, Krishna was resting in forest and by seeing the feet of Krishna, Jara aimed his arrow at Krishna’s feet thinking that it is his prey. Thereby, Krishna was killed by Jara.

So, it is evident that, if anyone who opts for an unfair act, would not be spared anyone, even if it is god.

One can adopt the moral from this and realise that forgiving is a better act than that of going for revenge. I did not mean that Lord Rama had taken revenge, Lord Rama has done something unethical (even though the cause may be good) and he was given similar jolt in his next incarnation.

Note: I am not supporting any religion, race, caste, creed etc. I just believe in morals!