What is Intolerance? Where do you stand? Introspect……

On the ongoing controversy of intolerance, I recall the speech extracts from Swami Vivekananda .A very familiar story..

 A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. It was born there and brought up there, and yet was a little, small frog. It every day cleansed the water .One day another frog that lived in the sea came and fell into the well.

 Where are you from?"
"I am from the sea."

"The sea! How big is that? Is it as big as my well?" and he took a leap from one side of the well to the other.
"My friend," said the frog of the sea, "how do you compare the sea with your little well?”

Then the frog took another leap and asked, "Is your sea so big?"
"What nonsense you speak, to compare the sea with your well!"

"Well, then," said the frog of the well, "nothing can be bigger than my well; there can be nothing bigger than this; this fellow is a liar, so turn him out."

 

This is a story on Intolerance; very well articulated by the best thinker in the world .

 …Its upto you to decide which frog you are ……….

 

 

 

• You should be broad enough to understand what others are saying; rather than shunning them.

• You should be able to understand the fellow citizen on his worries as well as happiness. From his perspective.

• Respect every persons view on the same subject ; irrespective of religion and other barriers