HOPE
There are many magical four letter words. Love, life, pain, gain,
hope are few of the strongest words found in the English dictionary. Though all
the above words are interdependent and very powerful but I will pick “Hope” in
this article. As long as you have hope, you are living. If hope ceases to exist
in your life then you may be breathing but you are not living in reality. God
is nothing but hope. It’s such a kind of hope that exists even though you have gone
hopeless. When there is no one to give you hope, there is this biggest source
of hope and ironically you cannot even see this great source of hope, the god. When
you are in deep mess or trapped in a pitch dark tunnel, you look for way out
and you strive because there is a ray of hope in your eyes and your heart beats
for a better tomorrow.
I ‘hope’ most of the readers of this article must have
watched the movie ‘castaway’. The actor Tom Hank’s plane got crashed and he was
swept away to an isolated island. There were no traces of existence of human
race in the island. The life was almost an end for him but he had hoped to
survive and had dreamt to meet his dear ones again. The soccer ball ‘Wilson’
became his companion and source of hope and it finally helped him to survive. Someone
has rightly said” hope anchors the soul”. All the great achievements in the
history came only when the achiever had hoped to accomplish it. In the last
decade, all the major elections were won by political parties which were able
to give hope to the common mass. The parties which kept on criticizing the ruling
party or other rival parties without any vision for the mass were defeated
massively. It’s innate psyche of public to look for a better future, look for
hope. The general public always looks for ‘heroes’ who can give them hope and
one of few such heroes will be revered as ‘god’.
Have you ever thought why the religious gurus have such a
strong fan following? How come gurus or modern day ‘babas’ have so much hold on
the common people? Why and how? There may be many factors but hope is the
strongest one for such a mass following. Gurus may be clueless about the real
problems of the disciple but they can recommend heavy dose of ‘hope’ which
really does miracle. This heavy dose sometimes becomes more effective than
medicinal doses of doctors. Even a simple but genuine statement like ‘you will
get it’ brightens the hope inside the person. The hope infuses flow of positive
energy in the body and thus inspires the “Karma”. Even person with high caliber
sometimes fail to realize his true potential if he runs out of hope. We all know
the famous story of lord Hanuman and astute Jaambandh. Lord Hanuman forgot his
true potential and wondered how to cross the ocean to meet Sita. Jaambandh made
a timely entry and realized the lord about his true potential and gave him much
required quantum of hope to succeed.
The recent case of martyred soldier Hanumanthapa in Kargil is
a classic case of miraculous hope. The survival of the soldier buried under the
deep layers of snow for ten days was nothing sort of miracle. There must be
elements of hope inside the brave soldier which had kept him alive for ten
days. Only those communities or civilization had progressed or taken great
strides which had hoped for a better tomorrow. Indian freedom fighters had
dreamt of a shackle free ‘Bharat Mata’ and their karma made the dream possible.
Poet Iqbal had dreamt of a separate Islamic country, Pakistan and karma of his
followers made his dream feasible.
A recent study revealed that candidates who appeared for
interview and had even false hope of success had better chance of clearing the
interview. Hope is not only a powerful word but a powerful theme of life which
can challenge difficult obstacles and hardships in the pursuit of happiness and
for a better tomorrow.
