Lack of Right Thinking

LACK OF RIGHT THINKING Wrong thinking prompts a person to react to a provocative situation in the same manner, while right thinking teaches a person to defuse a provocative situation and render any provocation ineffective. O nce, a riot broke out in a certain town between members of two communities. In this riot, members of one community faced large-scale loss. Their economy was laid to ruins. I happened to meet a man from this town who belonged to this community. I asked him why the riot had taken place. He said that a procession of members from the other community had entered the locality inhabited by members of his community and there they began raising slogans against this community. On this, residents of the locality got agitated. Some youths among them, he said, then ‘took one step’ as one of them explained. I asked him what that step was. He explained that they had thrown some hand bombs on the procession. This enraged the people in the procession so much that they began to indulge in violence. I asked the man what the slogan was, reacting to which those youths had taken that step. He explained that the