Our Arduous Odyssey: Our Fate

The most sublime culture of 'letting go' of one's own interests for the benefits of others and at last for some peaceful co-existence on this life-supporting little blue planet—and thereby the most humane means of ahimsa, peaceful dialogue, non-violent protest, grant of huge sacrificial concession, caving in to instilling in oneself with this mindful sang-froid and stint and self-content (seen as self-denial by those having some passing glimpses through the prism of market-oriented glitter and glamour and lifestyle taken as life itself)—has ever been the signatory personality, the most civilized, of the land of Aryas, Baharat, the one and only nation-state who is proud of itself stark otherwise, having never ever encroached on the sovereign right of a neighboring country. Though human being can’t live without some self-created little problems to be solved on a daily basis, as the major parts of the habituated treadmill or cognitive inertia, all those ‘big’ problems the world is facing now have more or less stemmed from the lack of the same ‘letting go’ quality, historical blunders of encroaching on others’ basic rights, the last palliative means of globalized economy as the existential threat to our fragile ecosystem, the nerves of its mechanism rooted in some huge irresponsible gluttony strained. How different our world can be, if we have lived by those aforementioned qualities? But no, we are some insane, crude-nerved dastards who can overlook millions starving for being that ambitious with reifying what is called ‘artificial intelligence’, by belittling those feeling ones, but for inventive craze, or any supra-natural insanity, arching against the same musty floor of market economy.

So Tibet, the land of snows, being ‘the faithful chela’ of the great civilization, with our own individualistic ways of approaching the most convoluted issues of mind and life, has inherited the same personality in our beings for dealing with even mundane issues regarding national interests and sovereignty, so evident from our having been on the receiving ends in our long history like Baharat herself had been so. And for now, pioneered by His Holiness the 14^th Dalai Lama, our prime approach to solving Tibet Issue, known as Middle Way Approach, is thickly wrapped in the same habiliments, rather unthinkable to many young Tibetan minds educated in the West. Being so sincere on our side, we even now ignore to study the other’s motive, given our tendency so ready to take for granted that human being is compassionate by nature and thereby changeable, why not entitled for ‘a second chance’.

But for the time being, the other, the system of governance so tangentially erratic and her vassals more or less silenced and mechanized into a vending machine, with just one idea about life, make money and enjoy, no place for thinking and racking one’s head, can’t be reasoned at all into giving some mind to our great personality, our placing everything at her disposal without having devised some machination of quid-pro-quo: ‘autonomy’ for independence voluntarily professed rather than as a precautious deal, ‘one China policy’ brooked without a word about India’s policy of any (how possible about India’s policy on Tibet, despite being the only guru-chela related, faithful neighbor), Nehru India’s great concessions including taking ‘Tibet as an unalienable part of China’ even after having been taken by a great shock and disillusionment, for his inimitable moral fiber and devotion to socialist revolution, a series of border scuffles and encroachments retaliated just by the same means of peaceful dialogue, even now.