In our school, there was this mild mannered kid who was regularly bullied by his classmates. He lacked courage to counter attack and used to meekly say - CHHADA, MATE MARIKI SE BHARI BADA LOKA HEIJIBA. (Leave him, as if by bullying me he will be a big guy).
That was his way of retaliation. Not that he was forgiving in nature, he was simply weak. And his tormentors knew it.
Considered as a BHALA, SANTA SUDHARA PILA (A good, quite, cultured kid), he earned everyone's empathy. But no one ever came to his rescue and the bullying barely stopped.
Same happens to India, who is praised by big and small for showing immense restrain when constantly battered with fusillades from its western neighbor Pakistan. The only tangible and visible response it has done so far is KADI NINDA (strong condemnation). Alas, it hardly helps in stopping the bullying, not withstanding paeans of praises heaped at it from the Biggies, aka US, Russia, Western Europeans for showing immense restrain.
Reminds me of a story from the great PANCHATANTRA (Five Treatise), a series of meaningful short stories compiled by our ancient story teller Vishnu Sharma. Once a sage told a snake to stop biting people. The snake followed the sage's order quite literally.
One day the badly beaten snake came back to sage blaming him for his bad HAALAT (plight). The sage said - "I told you to stop biting, did not tell you to stop hissing or raising your fang".
The snake got the hint and was never attacked again. Hopefully we take a cue from CHANAKYA and our Ancient texts. Our Nuclear weapons can be used to strike a lethal bite, but is redundant as hissing or raising the hood, snarling our poisonous teeth can do wonders.
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