The Day Rohan Refused to be a Shield

Today something very small happened at work. A list was forwarded to him. Rohan was told to amend and shorten it. So, he amended, shortened and formatted it and shared it with everyone. Later, one entry in that list turned out to be wrong. A name was mixed up with another similar name.

The error was not his. He had only shortened and amended. 

Still, he prepared a correction note and shared the updated version immediately.

Then his senior told him, "You call them and explain."

He said, "Sir, this error did not come from me. I have already shared the correction with you. It will be better if you speak to them."

He said no.

And after saying no, he felt bad.

Why was he told to call? The person who made the original error could have been asked to call. But he was chosen. Because he is known to be soft-spoken and cooperative. Everyone knows it.

Cooperative people are easy to send. They will apologize politely. They will absorb the blame. They will protect the team by sacrificing themselves.

He thought about it. If he had called and simply said, "Sorry, it was a mistake," the other party would have assumed he was careless. His credibility would have dropped.

If he had called and said, "It was not my fault, someone else gave me the wrong information," then he would have looked like a person who blames his own colleagues. He would have been labeled as someone with no team spirit.

In both situations, he would have been judged as wrong. So he took the third path. He refused to make that call.

For the first time, he refused to become a shield for someone else's error.

Now he keeps asking — "Have I become a man of attitude? Have I become a difficult person? Am I losing my goodness?"

The writer don't think so. The writer thinks he is becoming a man who refused to be controlled.

For years, Rohan said yes to everything to keep the peace. People appreciated him because he was convenient, not because he was respected.

Today he said no. Without anger, without disrespect. Just with clarity. He will not carry a weight that is not his.

Feeling bad after saying no does not mean he is wrong. It means he is a good person who is learning to set boundaries. Wrong people never feel bad after saying no.

Rohan is not turning to be bad. He is turning into a person who has realized — his sincerity is not available for misuse.

Fake Morality Trap: The Fragrance of True Morality

Abstract

True morality is like the fragrance of a flower — very subtle to capture. You can't write it in words. It can only be practiced. You can write about the flower, you can describe its colour, but you cannot put its fragrance in words. You have to go near it. You have to breathe it.

~ Sudhir Singh

Part 4, The Fragrance

In the previous two parts, we studied about Pattern and Trap and today, I am going to tell you about fragrance of true morality. Yes, I can only tell you about the fragrance and not about it exactly in words.

True Morality is not about rules. It is about self-control. But this control is not forceful. Forceful control is fake morality — you suppress yourself because you are afraid of punishment or hungry for praise.

My control comes from inner wisdom, after Self-Actualization. When you see clearly, you don't need to force yourself. The wrong simply stops attracting you.

And this morality is not for a handful of capitalists or a chosen few. It favours the benefit of a larger group. It is deeply rooted in compassion, kindness, and Self-Realization.

True morality is like the fragrance of a flower — very subtle to capture. You can't write it in words. It can only be practiced. You can write about the flower, you can describe its colour, but you cannot put its fragrance in words. You have to go near it. You have to breathe it.

This morning I understood this through a dream.

I saw myself travelling in a train. My son was sitting alone on a seat, and then the train started. Then I found myself in my childhood school. My teacher of English, Mrs Gayatri was teaching students in her class. And I was looking for my class and section where I should go, but I couldn't find my class. I was just walking in the corridors because my class doesn't exist in my dream. 

Then the school principal saw and criticized me — she said, “Have you seen Dwaparyuga? You wrote as if you were there.” I said nothing. On the wall, my past writings were displayed — writings about Consciousness, Hindu Symbolism, incarnations of the Cosmic Order popularly known among us as: Ram, Krishna. Then, in the corner of a wall, I saw all the headings of my first series of the year 2026: "The Gallery of Noise".

In those writings, I had used a symbolic approach that only a few can get until they read it deeply.

Then I saw a big house. It was locked from outside, but inside there were rooms. It seemed I had already lived in that house. 

Thereafter, I saw myself walking in a street surrounded by thick vegetation. There, two boys were playing cricket, and I got an impression that I too often play cricket there, all alone. 

When I woke up, I understood — this is what fragrance is.

I cannot explain why I feel I have lived in a house I have never entered. I cannot explain why I write about Dwaparyuga as if I were there. I cannot explain why a boy who played alone still walks alone in the corridors looking for a class that doesn’t exist in that dream.

It can only be lived.

Because true morality isn't taught in classes.

It has not syllabus, no curriculum and no specific teacher.

Fake Morality Trap: The Forgotten Voices - In Detail

Part 3, The Forgotten Voices 

"The trap is not that you are told to sacrifice. The trap is that you start loving your sacrifice. Your sacrifice shouldn't come from external validation."

~ Sudhir Singh

Fake morality survives not because it is strong. It survives because it is comfortable.

It tells you, "Sacrifice, and you will be called good. Suffer, and you will be called noble. Obey, and you will be called moral."

And slowly, you don't just obey. You start loving your chain because the chain gives you an identity. 

"I am the one who sacrifices." 

Without that identity, who are you? That question scares you more than the sacrifice itself.

This is where true morality begins, and this is where everyone misses it.

1. Vishnugupta Chanakya was not moral in your sense.

We made him a clever economist. He was more than that.

Chanakya said, "A person who cannot question the king, the scripture, and his own guru is not moral, he is a slave."

His Arthashastra is not about money. It is about vivek - the courage to see things as they are. He wanted a citizen who is not emotional, not obedient, but awake. 

We didn't like that. A citizen who is awakened is difficult to rule. So we turned him into a trickster. We forgot his voice.

2. J. Krishnamurti and Osho said the same thing, 2000 years later.

Krishnamurti said, "Truth is a pathless land. You cannot be led to it by any religion, any guru, any system."

Osho said, "Be a light unto yourself. Don't follow me."

Listen carefully. Both of them were destroying the very business of fake morality. Fake morality wants you to follow the path." True morality wants from you to discover your path.

People went to listen to them expecting comfort. They got a mirror. And a mirror doesn't comfort you, it exposes you.

So what did people do? They made Krishnamurti a mystic you cannot understand. They made Osho a controversial figure you should not listen to. 

It was easy. When you cannot refute the message, you defame the messenger.

We missed them too.

Why do we miss every true voice?

It is because true morality demands one difficult thing i.e. Courage to Stand Alone.

Fake morality is always crowd-based. What will people say? Will my community call me good? Will God in their book approve me?

True morality is lonely. 

It asks, "Even if no one is watching, even if no one will call you good, even if you will be called bad; what is the right thing?

That question needs intelligence, honesty, and solitude. And we are trained for the opposite: we want quick validation, easy answers, sensational relief.

My writing on fake morality will meet the same fate. I know it already.

Not because people are bad. But because to understand it, you have to lose something - your beautiful dream that "I am good because I suffer."

And no one wants to break a beautiful dream.

But if you have read till here, practice SAKSHI, The Witness.

Be a witness to your own sacrifice. 

Ask - Am I doing this because it is right, or because I will be called right?

If it is for being called right, it is fake. If it is right even when you are called wrong, it is true.

That is the entire difference.

Fake Morality Trap: The Trap -- In Detail

Part 2: The Trap

 "A person who fears opinions will always remain smaller than their own potential."

 ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

In the previous part, we tried to understand the pattern in detail, and in the end, we found that the faces of power may change, but the blueprint remains the same. People in power debate and criticise each other in public, but meet at dinner parties in private.

They set a narrative to construct a structure of fake morality with the help of their team of intellectuals. And then, people are indoctrinated to bear everything quietly and call it fate. They are taught to follow moral values like "Always speak the truth" and so on. However, the 10% themselves don't follow these values.

But I confess and say this with awareness that I too have been conditioned to always speak the truth, even when it costs me. But I am aware that those 10% use truth only when it suits them. This awareness is my first step out of the trap, and maybe yours too.

Then, these 90% are given small rewards. They are appreciated for their sacrifices, and sometimes an ideal is created among them — an ideal who is later either killed or assassinated. Then they are told, if you too want such rewards, you should also sacrifice.

And now they worry more about opinions than about discovering reality.

Now the question is:

Why they do this?

They do it for Expansion and rule.

The very basis of capitalism is expansionism. To fulfil their ambition, they want full control over natural resources, national income, human resources, politics, and the economy. So they build a structure of morality for the 90%, as I explained above.

And now the question arises:

Is every school of morality a conspiracy?

No, not all. 

We will discuss it in detail in the next post, but today, we will try to understand the trap.

The trap is set for all, and for this, a parallel support system is developed. For those who are less intelligent, rallies are organised, religious functions are held, and people are given cheap or free facilities.

And for those who are intelligent, a literature is built by their team of intellectuals. They revise their scriptures and make them more logical.

And finally, we all get trapped.

Fake Morality Trap: The Pattern — In Detail

Thoughts are like patterns. The more you recognize them, the more you can see what lies behind them. Every school of thought has a hidden agenda and a support system. For instance, capitalists and moralists often support each other for their own benefit.

How? Let me explain.

The world has only two categories of people:

First, the rulers — 10%.

Second, the conditioned / indoctrinated — 90%.

The 10% have access to all resources. And the 90% are trained to accept their lives as they are. They are conditioned to believe in their fate so they don't question the system.

Now, let's try to understand how they do it.

For this, two things are done:

First: Formation of Religion without Spirituality.

Second: Providing manipulated literature to indoctrinate people.

And this work is done smartly and secretly. A team of intellectuals is prepared who influence people's reasoning and rational thinking. They first make people sensitive, and for this, a kind of tragedy or untoward incident is created or planned. Then, people become emotional. They become sensitive, and afterwards, a fake narrative is built.

After building the fake narrative, people are provoked and unrest is created so they can't raise their voice against genuine problems like education, poverty, health and mental health. Rather, they are given cheap tools so they forget about it. Such tools decreases their attention time span and ability to comprehend. 

And in the entire process, one person from their own group is portrayed as a hero and then he/she is assassinated or killed.

Thereafter, behind closed doors, a plan is built and implemented for the long run.

And now a Blue Print for their 100 years rule is prepared. The faces of power may change but the blue print will remain the same. They do debates, criticise each others in public but meet at dinner parties in private. 

This is the pattern.

And once it's seen, you can never unsee it.

Fake Morality is a Trap -- True Morality is Born From Spirituality (Introduction)

Part I

The Pattern

Thoughts are like patterns. The more you recognize them, the more you can see what lies behind them. Every school of thought has a hidden agenda and a support system. For instance, capitalists and moralists often support each other for their own benefit.

How? Let me explain.

The world has only two categories of people:

First, the rulers — 10%.

Second, the conditioned/indoctrinated — 90%.

The 10% have access to all resources. And the 90% are trained to accept their lives as they are. They are conditioned to believe in their fate so they don't question the system. 

Part 2 -- The Trap

They are indoctrinated to bear everything quietly and call it fate. They are taught to follow moral values like "Always speak the truth," and so on. However, the 10% themselves don't follow these values.

Why?

Expansion — and rule.

The very base of capitalism is expansionism. To fulfill their ambition, they want full control over natural resources, national income, human resources, politics, and the economy. So they build a structure of morality for the 90%, as I explained above.

And now the question arises:

Is every school of morality a conspiracy?

No, not all.

Part 3 -- The Forgotten Voices

J. Krishnamurti and Osho Rajneesh introduced true morality, but people didn't get what they wanted to say. They missed them. And before them, many more philosophers like Vishnugupta Chanakya came, and they too were either ignored or misunderstood.

I too had already written about fake morality and true morality, but I am certain no one will read my content properly. And if they somehow read it, they will hardly understand it. And even if they do understand, they will feel as helpless as I do. Because I know people don't like difficult and honest intellectual experiences; they like easy, sensational content that gives them temporary relief. My writing will break their beautiful dream.

Part 4 -- The Fragrance

My morality is more about self-control but this control is not a forceful control. It comes through inner wisdom after Self Actualisation.  And I favour the benefit of a larger group of people, not a handful of capitalists. I feel true morality is like the fragrance of flowers — very subtle to capture. You can't write it in words. It can only be practiced. It is deeply rooted in compassion, kindness, and Self-Realization. 

But I know the structure of society is built in such a way that people only listen to those who are successful at a concrete level. And a person like me has no concrete success. My success is of self-mastery and self-discovery — the kind that hardly anyone admires.

In the upcoming posts, I will describe these parts in detail. Stay in touch.

Pratapbhanu, a righteous king who is cursed to be Demon

In my son's school, celebration of Dussehra is going on. So, we are instructed to make Ravan craft for Dussehra Activity. My wife along with my entire family is busy to prepare for Kanya Puja and therefore, it is only I who is free because I don't participate in such rituals. However, I don't criticise them. They do what they like. And I do what I think is right for me. As per my understanding, Maa Aadi Shakti is everywhere in every atom. To me, the best way to serve Her is to preserve nature, the feminine power and to respect women. 

So being the only member free at home, I have been given this responsibility.

 

To be honest, I am not good in Craft Work. Even during my B.Ed., it was one of the most difficult task for me. Nevertheless, I have to do and so I start. 

While making it, a thought comes -- very few people know the story of Ravan. Most of them know that he was a bad guy. However, he wasn't.

Ravan whom you burn every year wasn't evil in his previous life. His story of becoming Ravan is more than a tragedy. He was Pratapbhanu, a righteous king in his past life. Being very truthful, generous and philanthropic, he defeated and killed many demons and evil kings.

He won all seven islands and became Chakravarti. Also, he performed 1000 yagyas and ruled like Indra. His minister was Dharmaruchi (followers of truth) and very wise.

"Then, how did he become Ravan?" 

You may have this question in your mind.

See, the law of Karma is very strange. His digvijaya (victor over the World) and himsa (violence) also played a part.

Not because of his evil deeds but because of his ambitions. 

He was cursed for a sin which he didn't even commit. 

Now, let's see the point where he along with his entire family were cursed to be reincarnated as demons.

Once he went for a hunt and chased a wonderful boar. That boar was actually a demon named Kalaketu whose family Pratapbhanu had killed earlier.

After being lost and thirsty in the forest, he saw an Ashram. There lived a rival king whose kingdom Pratapbhanu had won. That rival was sitting disguised as a sage. He recognised Pratapbhanu but Pratapbhanu did not recognise him.

That false sage admired his ambition. He said he can make his empire greatest and immortal. He told Pratapbhanu to organise a grand bhog for Rishis and said, "I will cook with my maya and prepare it."

So a huge feast was organised. The food was secretly mixed with meat. Just when Rishis sat to eat, an Akashvani stopped them, "Don't eat, there is meat in it". The Rishis got angry and cursed Pratapbhanu that he along with his entire family will be born as demons in next life.

Then again a voice from sky said it was not his fault, he was innocent. So to balance it, he was given a boon that he will not forget his knowledge even in demon body.

In Jain tradition, it is said that their next Tirthankar, enlightened man will be none-other-than Ravan himself. Chandramohan Jain popularly known as Osho Rajneesh also stated that one who has reached at the peak of evil will become good and vice versa.

To explain it vividly, he gave the example of a paper. If you write on it with black ink and keep writing, the paper will turn black. And now if you really want to write something on it, you have to use white ink only.

So, in his next life, he will definitely become an enlightened man.

Why and how?

Because he already had completed a Cycle...

From my perspective, Ravan is much better than us. 

Happy Dussehra!

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