for hindus (sura : asura : : friend : foe)

[maadhav]

Here are a few lines from

Michael Dibdin's Novel - Dead Lagoon:

 

"There can be no true friends without true enemies. Unless we hate what we are not, we cannot love what we are. These are the old truths we re particularly rediscovering after a century and more of sentimental cant. Those who deny these deny their family, their heritage, their culture, their birthright, their very selves! They will not lightly be forgiven."

 

if a sthita pragna cannot solve the conflicts of others,

in a way that the suras get the justice and fair deal against asuras, then he is only selfish for his own realization for god, and for going to god's abode. he then has no gratitide for the culture in which he grew tht helped him to realize god. so, as long as one is not really advanced to a stage of sthitapragna, one should not pretend as if he is. just think if all the people of a country pretend to be sthita pragna, then any enemy can walk in teh country and can make them slave, taking away all the things they have. bottom line: a rare sthita pragna person is glorified by hindus only, but a whole sthita pragna society or nation cannot bring happiness to its people. (unless they choose to fight adharma and adharmis.)