ਨਿਰਭਉ
Nirbhao
Undeterred, (not conforming to alien law).
The truth has full existential and functional autonomy.
The truth or the ultimate
creative cause of the apparent reality wields its own supreme law, which is not
subordinate to any other authority. If it were subservient to any other regime,
then it would not be the ultimate reality. In that case, the authority
subordinating it would be the ultimate reality and that would don all the
attributes ascribed to it. Thus, it comes at the end of the abstraction, after surpassing
all the subordinate levels of competence.
This attribute is significant
and this hypothesis is challenging. No one has ever been able to establish
superiority over the supreme laws of the ultimate reality. No one ever has been
able to violate or bypass the principles of the truth as they transpire in the
manifest reality. Those who tried to overcome the hurdles created by its rules
could do so only by understanding and obeying them, and by deploying some
other rules of the absolute reality against them.
Thus, if heavier bodies sink in
water, the Archimedes’ principle tells how to make them float on the surface.
If the gravitational pull of the Earth prevents gliding in the air, Bernoulli’s
principle shows the way to fly in the skies. Where there is no escape from the
freezing chill of the snowy lands, the law of conduction of heat guides that
snow cave is the best resorts to guard against the chill. If escape to the
space is not possible for want of an airy medium beyond the atmosphere,
Newton’s third law of motion opens up possibilities of space travel to the
other planets. In every case, one law of the ultimate reality has to be
counteracted by some other law of it to overcome the impact of its operation.
Mere violation of its laws or their substitution by alien principles is an
absolute impossibility.
It shows that the ultimate is
supreme in a complex manner. While its supremacy is pliable to a limited extent
in some principled ways, it is not refutable. Modern science is trying to
understand this complexity to find alternate paths of operation or paths of
least resistance for human action. It has discovered numerous principles to
circumvent the all-pervasive laws of the ultimate reality and it has invented
various devices based on them. Modern technology is in an endless run to enlist
more achievements in this respect.
Thus, the humanity is, in a
sense, helpless under the operation of the supreme law of the ultimate reality.
It lives within it and in accordance with it. If it wishes to prevent an
earthquake, it cannot do that. If it wants to cause rainfall in the deserts, it
cannot do that. If it wants to increase the human life span to 1000 years, it
cannot do that. If it wants to make colonies on the seabed and wishes to live
under water like the fish, it cannot do that. If it wants to fly in the air and
live in nests on the treetops like birds, it cannot do that. But, these
impossibilities are relative. Science has indeed enabled people to go to the
seabed, fly in the air, travel in the space and increase the span of life by
some years. Humanity is in a constant struggle trying to discover new laws with
a view to achieving more success in these and other areas. Though the ultimate
reality is aggressive against the breach of its lawful volitions, yet it is
permissive on their compliance as it allows their manipulation through a set of
lesser-known laws, which have to be discovered from time to time.
This attribute makes the
operation of the law of the truth supreme and objective. The supreme law is
supreme for it does not bend according to the whims of the violators. Its
treatment is equal for all and it does not excuse anybody by way of ‘grace’ or
pardon. The prayers do not make it flexible and offerings of any sort do not
earn exemptions from the consequences of its breach. The law does not recognize
moral and social questions as it is amoral, and the ethico-moral issues are the
product of the social system, which are recognized solely within it. Had it not
been amoral, none of the honest would ever drown in the river and none of the
pilgrims would ever die in road accident on way to religious shrine. Also, none
of the devotees would ever perish in congregational stampede[1] and none of the holy
men would ever suffer pain and adversity.
[1]Incidentally, there is no classified
data on how many devotees of various religions die in accidents. However,
incidents like the ones noted below are frequently reported in newspapers. “Eleven pilgrims were killed and 32 injured
when the truck (RJ 13 G-2001) they were traveling in, which was bound for Lehra
Dhurkot in Bathinda district from here, met with an accident reportedly due to
the failure of brakes near Lal Dhang on the Himachal-Haryana border today.” The Tribune, November 16, 2002 ; “All 302 members of
the Iran Pakistan February 20, 2003 ; “Acting Chief of
Damdami Taksal, was rushed to a private hospital in a critical condition after
a road accident here yesterday.” The
Tribune, April 5, 2003 ;
“Prof Darshan Kumar of Government
College Beas rammed into a truck (HP-23-1993)
parked on the Hoshiarpur-Jalandhar road at Mandiala yesterday.” The
Tribune, June 2. 2003; “Two scooter-borne persons were killed when their
vehicle was hit by a truck near Badbar village, 18 km from here, on the
Sangrur-Barnala road today. These men were
ragis who were going to Bahadurpur village near Mastuana Sahib to take part
in a religious function. Both were named Makhan Singh.” The Tribune, July
16, 2003 , and “Four young men were run over and killed by bus” near
Mahilpur in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab
while they returning on motorcycles from a holy trip of Hemkunt Sahib. See, The Tribune,
July 14, 2007 .
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