Lesson from Bamiyan Buddha

  

As one closely associated with the late Ganapathi Sthapati (former Principal, Government Colleges of Architecture & Sculpture, Mahabalipuram, Chennai http://www.vastuved.com/),

I know the creative value of the following sculptures.

“The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing buddha carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km (140 mi) northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2,500 meters (8,202 ft). Built in 507 CE, the larger in 554 CE, the statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art.”
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan

Words will fail to express my sadness as the above statue was damaged as shown in the following figure in the above link.

Assuming the media version of their destruction in March 2001 by the Taliban, on orders from leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, after the Taliban government declared that they were idols, 

I still feel that every one of us is responsible for it as reasoned below.

All positive and negative world macro level actions can not be separated from the micro level actions of the human beings. It is like the link between micro level behaviour of the molecules and macro level behaviour of the gas comprising the molecules.

Whenever I harbour sustained anger and hatred towards any person or group of persons, I contribute a share to the net resultant negative erupting at macro level.

One such negative resultant  damaged the above statue.

To prevent such occurrences, I shall become a source of positive feelings and if negative feelings (like anger, hatred, jealousy etc) stage unforeseen entry, I shall consciously drive them out without sustaining them. I had found out that such unforeseen entry could be prevented if we free ourselves from the infection of comparison (explained in a post below).

Our contribution to negative become zero if we die to the negative persons.

If you are angry with the negative person, hate the person, you contribute to his/her negative magnitude. 

As explained in a post below (‘Can you be angry with Mathematics?’), when you die to a person, you multiply him/her with zero, making him/her zero with respect to you. In turn your magnitude becomes infinite with respect to him/her -  as you divided by that zero becomes infinite.

When such ‘free’ small kings like us (briefed in a post below) increase in number, the mischievous negative resultants in the world become weak. 

Instead of feeling helpless and dejected, we can initiate the above process with confidence and we will experience the results at our end soon and at macro world level, may be, in our life time.

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