Fighting for Righteousness

 

While I was travelling in a train, there was a lady vendor selling coriander leaves. She was taking them in bulk from one town to another for selling them in a market. Since she did not get time to wash the leaves before she packed, she thought of doing it in the train. She took it to the toilet and was washing it there placing them on the wash basin and using whatever space she had. Many passengers saw it but one of them started shouting at her.

 

 “Is this the way you clean these leaves which we are going to use even uncooked for our food? How dare you wash these leaves inside the toilet and toilet water?

 

This person, I am sure is not going to buy or use that particular leaves because he got down before the lady. But he was fighting for the cause of the society. Even though everybody knew what she did was wrong, others were not bothered much about it.

 

We see many such incidents in the society. We identify these people because they have a different spirit in them. Because they raise questions and condemn the wrongdoings in a society, they will have to undergo many persecutions. Even the beneficiaries of the cause they stand for, may not stand with them for fear of ill reputation or losing their names or other privileges in the society.  “Fighting for Righteousness” is a gift of the God.