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Mita Bhan, a tarot reader, Reiki master and crystal enthusiast chats with IBNlive readers and answers queries on what tarot cards read for India. Now, I’m not the one who goes for astrology… I would rather let the future events unfold and see it for myself. But I completely agree with Mita when she answers to a question on ‘corruption in India’. I quote her.

Corruption is so deep rooted in our country that immediate solutions are honestly impossible. Its roots lie in fear, fear of loss, fear of poverty and a lack of trust in the system. Unless those fears are faced individually, unless and until people feel secure that their needs are being met and their future can be bright - in their own hands, it won’t happen so quickly.

Fear, feeling of insecurity, lack of trust… these are the major causes of all evils we see today. And most of us have these negative feelings inside our own minds. We feel so insecure, we want to get things done quickly and we don’t mind paying extra to get in front of the queue. Some of us may not directly act corrupt, but we indirectly contribute to the negative mass by letting the negative feelings like fear and mistrust linger in our minds. No matter whether you have a right to information or how many laws you write or how many vigilance commissions you set up, there is no remedy for corruption in India unless feelings of insecurity and fear are tackled on an individual basis. Widespread feeling of mistrust in the society has to be replaced with trust and faith. This may seem like a daunting task, but this also gives us hope. What is society? nothing but a group of individuals, and we as individuals, can do our bit improve the state of the society by letting positivity grow inside each of us.

It’s my personal experience that when you feel secure and trust people you deal with, they trust you back and there is an air of honesty and confidence in the dealings. I’m not saying that you should act like a scape goat let yourself be deceived, but I mean the way you approach people. Approach people with a feeling of security, let their inner consciousness know that you have faith in them. This way, we may be deceived occasionally, but it is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.

I wish, in advance, a happy independence day to any Indian reading this.

Found some interesting information about an African tribal ceremony here in this web page. Apparently, the info appears in the book, “The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace” by Jack Kornfield… I have not read the book myself though.

In the Babemba tribe of South Africa, when a person acts irresponsibly or unjustly, he is placed in the center of the village, alone and unfettered. All work ceases, and every man, woman and child in the village gathers in a large circle around the accused individual. Then each person in the tribe speaks to the accused, one at a time, each recalling the good things the person in the center of the circle has done in his lifetime. Every incident, every experience that can be recalled with any detail and accuracy, is recounted. All his positive attributes, good deeds, strengths and kindnesses are recited carefully and at length. This tribal ceremony often lasts for several days. At the end, the tribal circle is broken, a joyous celebration takes place, and the person is symbolically and literally welcomed back into the tribe.

The ‘civilized’ world can learn a lot of things from this tribal community. Let’s face it, we all make mistakes. We make mistakes not because we gain something by committing the mistake, but because we lack something internally in ourselves. All those people we call criminals and terrorists lack something internally. We all influence each other continually, and a single individual or a group cannot be held responsible for a crime. We imagine the person committing crime as some kind of a villain, but really, he is the unfortunate victim. The collective mass of negativity created by all of us in the society expresses itself through certain unfortunate individuals. By punishing these individuals and hanging them, we don’t eliminate any negativity, but in reality, we add some more negativity to the world, thereby increasing the chances of terrorism and the number of these unfortunate individuals we call terrorists. The only way to wipe crime and terrorism from the world is to wipe out imbalance in the society and negativities inside each of us.

Christian Larson puts it perfectly in his book “The ideal made real”.

The man who is habitually doing wrong is mentally or morally sick. Punishment is a waste of time; besides, it is absolutely wrong, and one wrong cannot remove another. Such a person should be taken where he can be healed and kept there until he is well. We should not hate him or condemn him any more than those who are physically sick. Sickness is sickness whether it appears in the body, the mind or the character, and he who is sick does not need a prison; he needs a physician.

Infact, Gurus like Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Swami Ramdev and their followers reach out to these unfortunate individuals in prisons and transform their lives through their yoga programs. I myself practice one such yoga and I know that yoga can heal anything. As you practice yoga everyday, your inner bliss and your Love for all life grows continually. When there is Love, where is the space for crime? I mean, when Love can conquer wild animals, how can it not conquer human beings?

Let there be peace. Let there be Love. Cheers