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अँधेरे की मान्यता

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यह एक बहुत ही पुराने गांव की बात है| उस गांव के लोगों में रात के अँधेरे को लेकर एक काफी विचित्र सी अवधारणा थी| जिस तरह से बारिश में पानी बरसता है जमीन पर, इस गांव के लोग मानते थे की रात को अँधेरा बरसता है जमीन पर| और तो और ये लोग यहाँ तक मानते थे की जिस तरह से हम बारिश का पानी गांव की परिधि से बाहर फेंक सकते हैं और गांव को पानी से मुक्त कर सकते हैं, उसी तरह से हम रात के अँधेरे को भी गांव के बाहर फेंक सकते हैं और गांव को अँधेरे से मुक्त कर सकते हैं| इस मान्यता के तहत हर रात को उस गाँव के कुछ लोग पानी की तरह बाल्टियों में अँधेरे को लेकर गांव की परिधि पर जाते और अँधेरे को बाहर फेंक देते| हर रात को कुछ लोगों की अँधेरे को गाँव के बाहर फेंकने की ड्यूटी लगा करती| पूरी रात भर यह काम चला करता| सुबह जब रौशनी आना चालू हो जाती तो ये लोग सोचते कि हम अँधेरे को गांव के बाहर फेंकने में सफल हो गए|

बस इतनी ही है कहानी|
पहले मैं सोच रहा था कि इस कहानी की अपनी समझ को भी मैं यहाँ पर लिखूंगा पर अब मैं अपना निर्णय बदल रहा हूँ| अपनी समझ को जल्दी से व्यक्त कर के मैं इस कहानी के पाठकों के स्वतंत्र चिंतन को अवरुद्ध नहीं करना चाहता| अतः मैं पाठकों से आग्रह करूँगा कि इस कहानी के ऊपर वे अपनी टिपण्णी दें| सभी पाठकों की टिप्पणियां आ जाने के बाद मैं अपनी टिपण्णी एक नए ब्लॉग में लिखूंगा|
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  1. Very interesting story.
    Roman water supply system comes to mind. Romans assumed that water has to flow all the way downhill. Due to their limited understanding of siphons, they erected huge structures for their water supply. Well it gave world some great architectural marvels, it was unnecessary.
    My take on the story is that if your basic assumption is wrong, whatever you do on that basis will be wrong. And the trouble is that you won’t know that. You would try to fit every observation on that wrong assumption and will ignore the truth even when truth is looking at you.

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  2. This story reminds me of the trap set by our assumptions in which we are bound to live forever if we do not validate our assumptions. But as rightly pointed out in the first comment that its difficult to know about our wrong assumptions. So we will keep on fitting every observation on those wrong assumptions and will never come to know the truth. I see only one way to come out of such traps which is time to time we should stop doing the things the way we do and try to see and analyse what happens and also keep ourselves open to listening, learning and trying other’s point of views whom we trust as learned persons. In other words always keep ourselves open to learn and don’t hide ouselves in boundaries of notions created by us.

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  3. I read in one story on panchtantra, that if you do something with good heart with good intentions, doesn’t matter how wrong your assumption is, things will automatically be corrected.
    And i think it is true
    coz when we start doing anything by good intentions, we start moving on the path of truth, and path of truth no matter were it was started irt will lead to enlightenment.
    As per this story, people assumed that darkness flown in through sky, and when they have too much of it, they call it night. But what was their intention : to get rid of it, they through it out, but they didn’t care what will happen afterthat. So they have an incomplete understanding and their intentions may go wrong.
    had they tried to get rid of darkness by removing it or killing it, they must have come to know the truth.

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  6. i think it is a another qustion asked by nasrudin ha ha i m doing this thing also in my life try to throw out darkness but night is so long ……..

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