मिच्छामि दुक्कडम.

 Today is 22nd Aug, 2020. What a period we had last few months. Its 5 months and counting and most of us are cooped in our homes trying to make wild guesses. But let return to today.

Today is 22nd Aug, 2020. Today is जैन सवत्सरी day. Many of us will wish each other मिच्छामि दुक्कडम. 

Lets understand the meaning of मिच्छामि दुक्कडम.

कभी न कभी आपके मन यह सवाल जरुर आता होगा कि जैन धर्म में अक्सर मिच्छामी दुक्कड़म कहा जाता हैं, 

“मिच्छामी दुक्कड़म” को यदि हम हिंदी में समझने का प्रयास करें तो हमें पता चलता है कि मिच्छामी का अर्थ क्षमा और दुक्कड़म का अर्थ बुरा कर्म होता है अर्थात किए गए बुरे कर्मों के प्रति क्षमा याचना करना।

हमारी पृथ्वी पर बहुत सी अमूल्य चीजें विराजमान है। उन सभी चीजों में से मानवजाति भी अपनी महत्वता को भली-भांति समझता है। पृथ्वी पर मौजूद मानव एक ऐसा प्राणी है, जो किसी अन्य व्यक्ति के भावना, दुख – दर्द, खुशी – गम और अनेकों प्रकार की चीजों को महसूस या अनुभव करने की शक्ति रखता है।

यही कारण है, कि यदि कोई व्यक्ति हमें कुछ बुरा भला कहता है, तो हमें बहुत ही दुख होता है और फिर हम उस व्यक्ति से ईर्ष्या करने लगते हैं। कई बार बड़े-बड़े मानवीय रिश्ते में ना जुड़ने वाली दरारें पड़ जाती हैं, ऐसा इसलिए होता है, कोई व्यक्ति किसी अन्य व्यक्ति को किसी कार्य या किसी अन्य चीजों के माध्यम से उसे दुख पहुंचाया होता है।

जिन दो व्यक्तियों के रिश्तो में किन्ही कारणों की वजह से दरारे आती हैं, यदि वे दो व्यक्ति एक दूसरे से क्षमा मांग ले या फिर एक दूसरे के प्रति संवेदनशील हो जाए तो, ऐसे रिश्ते टूटने से बच सकते हैं।

Means this is largely between 2 people. 

Off course I mean it and I always wish people around me मिच्छामि दुक्कडम. 

There has been 1 thought passing thru my mind why does someone wishes someone मिच्छामि दुक्कडम even though they have not spoken, dealt with each other at all during the year/ years? They have very little in common in terms of business domain or social domain. Still people wish. 

This is something I have been thinking again and again. Like few years back I went to INDORE the very next day of सवत्सरी. What I say there really surprised me. There were we sitting in the Drawing room and people from all over the city were coming all the time and wishing मिच्छामि दुक्कडम. I checked were they regular to the household or are they connected in business or are they connected socially, the answer was these people will turn up next year now and most of them have very little connection.

So I again started, what is this?

May be its a way to express respect, 

May be its a way to network, 

May be its a way to create newer connections,

May be trying to judge for whatever reasons. 

May be it's खबर निकलना.

There is something which is quite deep and of social significance.. 

Why do we have to call/ wish someone and say मिच्छामि दुक्कडम when there has been no communication between each other during the year gone by, no connect in action, in motion or in emotion. Nothing. Still people call, message. If you get an answer to this then write to me. I am eager to know about this.

Earlier we used to send post cards, then we started making trunk calls, then STD. Then the mobile happened so it was SMS for few years and now we send WHATSAPP MESSAGES or BROADCAST MESSAGE. So see a blue tick and your wishes have reached. 

I have received these messages from about 100+ people since morning and I am counting. I counted how many of them are my vendors & customers. 

Vendors were 15 or 20 and customers were 0.

Actually I need to do a मिच्छामि दुक्कडम to my customers. 

The real meaning of these wonderful 2 words (as I understand)  is you may have hurt me, ignored me or failed to acknowledge me but still I want to look forward. I may have wasted my time thinking all the time how to grab your attention, how to damage someone etc. and still my heart & mind is really filled with these thoughts. 

In all such events I must say मिच्छामि दुक्कडम. 

Say these beautiful words with your heart and mind in it and really mean it. The experience is really phenomenal. I have experienced it once. I would like to experience it again and again. 

Then its an opportunity to connect with lots people and expand your vision. It is also a reminder that you have to do so much and there are far more intelligent and successful people from whom you can pick up some much. 

Lets all use this opportunity to move ahead and keep improving ourselves. 

Ultimately winning over our weaknesses will make us calmer and wise. That's what I want.

I end this by saying मिच्छामि दुक्कडम if I have hurt you during the writing of this.

HB