In the previous episode, we had witnessed the continuation of Bhishmachaarya’s detailed accord on the “Aapad Dharma” and how to tackle different types of enemies. In this context, we’ve seen yesterday as to how a leader should tackle two main types of enemies – Firstly, an enemy who is an epitome of “Dharma” and is an extremely powerful person and secondly, an enemy who is very high on “Adharma” and very powerful. While the enemy of the first category has to be handled, it is better not to pick up any unnecessary fight, do a peaceful negotiation and come back unharmed. In the second case, wherein the enemy is “Adharmic” in nature and powerful, it is once again not advisable to pick up a fight with such people. This is because, if we are trying to fight against someone who is powerful than us, chances are very high that we would end up on the losing side. This is in the case of both “Dharmic” and the “Adharmic” enemy. The only difference here is that, for an enemy who is an epitome of “Dharma”, it is good to negotiate, establish a good relationship with him and settle things amicably. Whereas, for the other category, it is better to surrender, give away a few things in exchange for the larger good. For this, we had witnessed how our ancestors protected our ancient temples, sanctums and sanctorums by giving away gold, temple lands, etc. in exchange for leaving the temples unharmed.
In today’s situation if we’ve to equate the first category, we clearly see our enemy rogue state, Pakistan messing up with us big time. While our “Bhaarata Desha” has always stood by “Dharma” and peace, without unnecessary provoking military action against anybody, and also being extremely powerful strategically and militarily, we clearly fall under the first category of enemy that Bhishmachaarya is talking about here. However, unlike how Bhishmachaarya explained, Pakistan is deciding to bloody its nose with us with all its misadventure. Little is Pakistan doing an analysis about its enemy before entering into a major strike. Readers might be aware by now – Pakistan had escalated the war situation with India last night with multiple drone strikes against us, however, they did so without doing any homework or preparation. All their drones / missiles were destroyed by our brave Armed Forces and this also forced a major retaliation from the Indian side, which hammered their key cities. This has inflicted heavy damage to Pakistan and we can clearly link the context to this example here – If we’re going against an enemy who follows “Dharma”, and is a very powerful force, it is always better not to mess up with such an enemy at any point in time. Pakistan is repeatedly failing to understand this, and is getting carried away by its ego, for which, it will face a heavy consequence sooner or later!
Moving on further thus, Bhishmachaarya continues to explain the next type of enemy – The enemy who lies within our own territory! Bhishmachaarya explains thus, “Oh Yudishtra! While it might be prudent that we’ve to tackle the external enemies in several ways, please understand that there might be enemies within our own territories, who will act at the behest of the external enemy and not at the behest of you! For instance, some people might be acting as spies for the outside enemy and might be staying within your kingdom itself. They will keep leaking secretive information to the enemy constantly, which would be a grave threat for your country’s sovereignty! Tackling the internal enemy is more important than tackling the external enemy!
What an apt point is Bhishmachaarya explaining here – Especially given today’s context in which our country is facing right now! As we all know, the external enemy is clearly Pakistan and its terror groups, but is that all? Is it only the external enemy that the Indian government and military is tackling? The answer is “No”! The government has to also tackle enemies from within, who are in the form of some anti-national elements roaming within our territorial borders! They sit in India, eat Indian food, drink Indian water and earn their livelihood in India, but at the end of the day, they will extend support directly or indirectly to Pakistan. We see our anti-national opposition parties taking this line, along with some media outlets as well! Especially when the war began yesterday, all these anti-national elements started opposing it! Instead of supporting the military efforts, this gang has begun a propaganda for “de-escalation” of the war situation! These anti-nationals will shed crocodile tears in front of the cameras and propagate that war is not a solution for anything in this world. But let me ask a question here to all these anti-national forces of this country – Where were your tears when 26 innocent Hindus were brutally massacred for no fault of theirs in Kashmir last month? Why would you shed tears when the perpetrators of this ghastly attack are being taken down? Doesn’t it clearly show the anti-national stance that these fringe elements are taking? Isn’t it dangerous for the country at this crucial stage? At a time when the country is expected to be united and stand behind our government and army, these anti-national elements choose to play this dirty game! Nevertheless, the point here is that we should not fall for these false propagadas. We, as proud citizens of our “Bhaarata Desha” should stand strongly behind our government, our Prime Minister and our Defence Forces at this crucial hour and extend whatever little support we can towards them!
So the point here is very clear as per Bhishmachaarya – Tackling external enemies might sometimes be easier than tackling the internal ones! So for today, let us understand this point clearly and we shall wait till the next episode to continue this discussion further! Stay tuned! 🙂
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