If you want peace, be prepared for war

In a village there entered a poisonous snake. It  would attack and bite people at random. Many were bitten and some of them died also. The villagers were upset about it. But none dared to come near the snake for the sake of his own life.

Once a Sadhu visited the village. The villagers approached the Sadhu and told him that how badly they were scared of the poisonous snake that had entered their village and bitten many and is now hiding somewhere in the village itself.


Sadhu possessed certain supernatural powers. He could even talk to the beasts and reptiles. Through his inner vision, he came to know where the snake was hiding. He approached the snake and commandingly advised him that he should not bite anyone in the village henceforth. The snake obeyed. The Sadhu told the villagers that they should not worry anymore. The snake will never bite them hereafter.

Exactly as the Sadhu had assured them, the snake stopped biting them. The fear that the villagers had of the snake, was gone. Now nobody bothered about the snake anymore. The children were playing and hitting it with the stones. Though the snake was wounded badly, yet it did not bite anyone.

After sometime, the same Sadhu visited the village again. He saw that the snake was badly wounded. The Sadhu approached it and asked how is it that you in such a pitiable condition.

The snake replied, "Sir this is all due to your command. Ever since I stopped biting they have started treating me like this".

The Sadhu at-once remarked, "You fool, I stopped you from biting but not from hissing. Had you been hissing at them, they wouldn’t have harmed you in this manner.’

There is a common saying ‘If you want peace, be prepared for war.’ But it does not mean you harm anyone. It only means that you always remain prepared to safeguard your ownself, your own nation.

This Story is applicable to the current situation of India viz a viz Pakistan. We have one of the better armies in the World, which can hiss and bite. But our Political leadership is like the Sadhu, who advises the Snake to not bite, and allow it to be beaten blue by the Pakistanis, time and again.

The whole of India is clamouring for India to bite in retaliation for the inhuman beheading of our Jawan. Forget biting, will India at least 'hiss'. The 'Eunuches' ruling our Country can't even dream of doing it. What a pity!!! We need to negotiate peace from a position of strength. But we are compromising every single time Pakistan misbehaves, and they are getting bolder. When will we have a leader who has some spine?