Of Miseries and Mercies

Mercy is a word frequently used by religious and spiritual persons to reduce miseries of people in trouble. It is this aspect of humanity, I am pondering over here to find the reality.


In orthodox societies, like those in under-developed and developing world, religious spiritual leaders of society rule the people psychologically and provide guidance to them on every aspect of life. Through their control of the public nerve, they also decide who is to be the political authority of the society. Thus, religious and political authorities are closely linked in-spite of their exhibited isolation and separate entities. Both have interlinked powers of exploiting the general people. When exposed, the religious authorities are proved to be the richest in their own societies.


Humans have two major aspects of their lives – genetic and worldly. Genetically, everyone is different from all others but this makes little difference as far as one’s survival in the world is concerned. They have capabilities that are comparable with each other. Worldly attachments of a person make a big difference between individual’s capabilities of surviving with pleasures of human life.


Genetically, there are a few exceptional cases of individuals born with physical and mental deficiencies. For such exceptions, genetic differences can not generally be taken as playing major roles in life. But the worldly differences of individuals are considerable and so can’t be ignored.


Religious, economical and political leading persons of a society decide and manage how people in the society have to be - miserable or happily placed. These very persons plead and display their mercies for people in distress. Thus, the persons who create conditions of miseries to people also show their mercies on miserable people. This indicates that religiously, economically and politically strong persons need some miserable persons for displaying their mercies and for this purpose, they create conditions of miseries to people. Through display of mercies, these very persons show themselves as generous persons caring for the miserable people in the society. For this very display, they first create conditions to make the people miserable and then display their mercies.


Examples of this sorts may be seen all around. Political leaders in the government ignore genuine needs of health, education, justice and employment opportunities to the people making their lives miserable. Then these very authorities provide to the poor free-ships in health and educational services, free housing aids, subsidies on food items etc. to show that they care and impress the people for voting them again to power. Had they solved any of the problems of the people, their lives would not have been miserable that the formers had no opportunity to display their mercies.


In the field of religions, the leaders create terror of God and death in the minds of people and after that they come forward as their saviors and make the latter as their followers for keeping their business of exploitation evergreen. Had there been no terror of God and death in the minds of the people, no savior would ever be needed and the business of religions and spirituality would be a flop.


The same process is going even the most modern business of information technology. First, some malicious software are created and spread in computer networks, and then protection programs are floated in the market. But, here, there are no acts of mercy but of pure commerce. Still the modus operandi remains the same.