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In the Face of Error and Evil

Dr. Alok Pandey

Abstract
The human journey starts from ignorance and hence errors and mistakes are an inevitable part
of the journey. While learning from errors are quite a normal process of growth, these errors still
become sometimes unwittingly the apparent cause of pain for others. This article explores the
ways of dealing with such eventualities that bring inadvertent suffering and pain.

surpasses human reason in certain ways. The
only difference is that the animal is unconscious
of itself and the operations of life within itself,
whereas man is born to become increasingly
conscious of himself and the forces that govern
his complex existence. A fully conscious human
being who knows himself in totality and in the
details of the operations of life and thus governs
his life consciously would be nothing short
of a demigod. The gods, it is said, act with an
Introduction intuitive light that reason does not possess and
hence their actions are often inexplicable to the
There is perhaps no species that is so much human reason that works within a narrow
prone to error as man but also none that range through the penumbra of a light that
torments itself so much under the burden of he fails to see. His life is a strange mix of light
sin and guilt. This is so because man stands and darkness with many shades of grey and
somewhere in between the animal and the every image he creates of truth and reality
demigod. Man has lost the sure instincts of casts a shadow below or around it. He has no
the animal kind through which the animal life certain light with which to walk, a predicament
is governed. The animal instincts are a reflex beautifully described in Savitri:
of intuition in the creature. It helps it meet
the various challenges of life in a way that “Assailed on earth and unassured of heaven,

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