NINDHA

(means to slander, asperse, defame, malign, backbite ..….)

Nindha can be described as a defamatory or negative statements made about someone, usually carried out to cause harm, to ruin the other persons reputation or generally to denigrate the other person status.

Nindha is no less a sin and Gurbani warns us against indulging in it. This evil also calls for great penance & corrective actions. We must never and I am learning too, not to talk about a person what is not true with intentions of maligning him who is not present in the conversation. A slanderer does not realise he/she is increasing his burden of bad karmas by sinful propensities. Nindha is a mirror of the polluted state of mind of the slanderer. Scriptures state the foolish slanderer is carrying huge useless loads only to lit fires of pain and suffering upon him. They say on the day of Judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak. Some scriptures consider Nindha amongst the most destructive of major sins. It expresses, avoid much (negative) assumption. It also says if in your presence someone is slandered and if we fail to defend, we risk depriving ourselves of the ever needed help and mercy of the Divine. In another scripture it is said one giving false evidence or uttering falsehood goes to Raurava hell.

What motivates a Slanderer, what is his/her state of mind to be doing what it does. Well the mind is foolishly working drawing attention to be noticed and get a feeling of being important, creating a bias in the society for gains to self or ones representation. Often it is jealousy and insecurity. The greed to be one up, the I me, mine, is very high in the slanderer. The slanderers Mind can be considered highly polluted, who is destroying the throne of human morality and depriving his soul of dignity and noble qualities. The slanderer is ignorant that all what he says is his loss while the person whom he is referring to is benefiting multifold.. Nindho Nindho Moko Log Nindho (Slander me, slander me, go ahead people & slander me says Bhagat Kabir.

In our next post we will understand why...