This is real life story of Mayur Shelke. If you do not know Mayur Shelke, watch a 2 minutes video here first
Mayur is brave, selfless railway employee in India who risked his own life to save a child. Hats off to Mayur.
When I first saw the video, I was mesmerised, I saw it again, and again and again. It requires an outrageous amount of valour for a man to race towards a speeding train to save a child. He missed being run over by a whisker and was one second away from his certain death.
But rewinding and playing many times, my mind started popping up questions & judgements about the whole scenario
Why did the mother allow child to let her drag to the edge of the platform?
Why did the mother not just pull the child up instead of watching him?
Or why didn’t the mother not ask the child to run to the other side of the track?
Making assumptions about something you do not know is a sure way to remain ignorant — Sadhguru
Later the Government gave Mayur a cash award for his brave act and our Hero Mayur goes one step ahead and donates half the money to the child. And in that report I learnt that the child’s mother was blind.
That was a jolt from the blue. Now if I watch the video again, it all makes sense, a blind woman holding her son, son falls on the track and the blind lady can’t do anything in that moment. How stupid I feel now, when I realise this truth about the mother and how ignorant of me to even think of her behaviour in that moment.
Mayur Shelke episode is a lesson which reiterates me again to tread with caution on my tendency to assume and conclude. I’m just a tiny spec here to come to a conclusion on anything.
When we are constantly bombarded with information, news overload from media, social media, this episode will remain at the back of my mind before arriving at judgement and questioning others people, situation or events.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but its another to think that yours is the only path — Paulo Coelho
