essay on 'patriotism' vs 'brotherhood'.
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Every citizen of a nation should be patriotic-we all know from our childhood. After growing up as an elderly person, I strongly believe all should rather be taught to bear within the philanthropic spirit of universal brotherhood. All the people in the world are our fellow humans and feel the same joy and sorrow. But unfortunately in the name of patriotism, we consider the common people of our so called enemy nations as our personal enemies, profanes and impostors. We rejoice at their loss and sufferings and consider their adversity as our prosperity; their disaster as our most cherished wish. They pay us in the same coin. If this is the name of patriotism, this is narrow antipathy-a crime against humanity. Why should civilized human beings be sadistic, jealous, biased and prejudiced against fellow human beings? A real patriot loves and should love his country first, because charity begins at home, but he should love the world too without any partiality. Universal brotherhood is real patriotism. Now a days, the news of racial and communal attacks and fights are often in the news. Some people of one state or nation do not tolerate the outsiders; hate their wellbeing and carve for their blood. Does our education, culture or religion teach us this? Will not we ever learn form the pious and noble deeds and saintly lives of Jesus Christ, Prophet Muhammad, Bhagaban Budha, Mahaveer Jain, Mother Teresa, Mahtma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Surdas, Tulsi Das, and a host of other good people in the world? Even very high profile politicians and country-heads, who should do largest good for the largest possible number of people, too behave like cunning, cruel, treacherous, greedy and heartless demons while brooding over their personal gain and conspiring against other nations. They are just petty politicians and can never be called statesmen. The statesmen are those, who are above such petty politics and narrow pseudo- patriotism. All our wars, bloodshed and devastation happened in the past and are happening now due to this. Ego, hatred, jealousy, misunderstanding, and greed has finished the human in us and made us beasts. Human beings, the most precious creation of God must prefer good to evil, nobility to ignobility, philanthropy to misanthropy, sympathy and empathy to apathy. Indian philosophy is famous for universal brotherhood-‘Basudheib kutumbakam’ (The whole world is my family) and ‘so Aham’(I am he) and ‘Sarve sukhinah bhabantu, sarve santu niramaya, sarve bhadrani pasyantu, ma kashit dukh bhag bhavet’ (Let all be happy and remain free from sorrow; let all see good and let there never be sufferings anywhere). Real patriotism means loving one’s own country and loving others too. ‘Ano bhadrah kratabo yantu biswatah’ (Let noble thoughts come to us from everywhere
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Every citizen of a nation should be patriotic-we all know from our childhood. After growing up as an elderly person, I strongly believe all should rather be taught to bear within the philanthropic spirit of universal brotherhood. All the people in the world are our fellow humans and feel the same joy and sorrow. But unfortunately in the name of patriotism, we consider the common people of our so called enemy nations as our personal enemies, profanes and impostors. We rejoice at their loss and sufferings and consider their adversity as our prosperity; their disaster as our most cherished wish. They pay us in the same coin. If this is the name of patriotism, this is narrow antipathy-a crime against humanity. Why should civilized human beings be sadistic, jealous, biased and prejudiced against fellow human beings? A real patriot loves and should love his country first, because charity begins at home, but he should love the world too without any partiality. Universal brotherhood is real patriotism. Now a days, the news of racial and communal attacks and fights are often in the news. Some people of one state or nation do not tolerate the outsiders; hate their wellbeing and carve for their blood. Does our education, culture or religion teach us this? Will not we ever learn form the pious and noble deeds and saintly lives of Jesus Christ, Prophet Muhammad, Bhagaban Budha, Mahaveer Jain, Mother Teresa, Mahtma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Surdas, Tulsi Das, and a host of other good people in the world? Even very high profile politicians and country-heads, who should do largest good for the largest possible number of people, too behave like cunning, cruel, treacherous, greedy and heartless demons while brooding over their personal gain and conspiring against other nations. They are just petty politicians and can never be called statesmen. The statesmen are those, who are above such petty politics and narrow pseudo- patriotism. All our wars, bloodshed and devastation happened in the past and are happening now due to this. Ego, hatred, jealousy, misunderstanding, and greed has finished the human in us and made us beasts. Human beings, the most precious creation of God must prefer good to evil, nobility to ignobility, philanthropy to misanthropy, sympathy and empathy to apathy. Indian philosophy is famous for universal brotherhood-‘Basudheib kutumbakam’ (The whole world is my family) and ‘so Aham’(I am he) and ‘Sarve sukhinah bhabantu, sarve santu niramaya, sarve bhadrani pasyantu, ma kashit dukh bhag bhavet’ (Let all be happy and remain free from sorrow; let all see good and let there never be sufferings anywhere). Real patriotism means loving one’s own country and loving others too. ‘Ano bhadrah kratabo yantu biswatah’ (Let noble thoughts come to us from everywhere)