UPSC Mains 2020 · GS IV · Q2(a) · 10 marks · 150 words

'Hatred is destructive of a person's wisdom and conscience that can poison a nation's spirit.' Do you agree with this view ? Justify your answer.

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'घृणा व्यक्ति की बुद्धिमत्ता और अन्तःकरण के लिए संहारक है जो राष्ट्र के चित् को विषाक्त कर सकती है ।' क्या आप इस विचार से सहमत हैं ? अपने उत्तर की तर्कसंगत व्याख्या करें ।

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Toppers wrote this one in a test series: “Hatred is a harmful negative emotion. It is injurious to both personal life and work life. a) Discuss how it leads to negative emotions and undesirable behaviour. b) How can it be managed and controlled?”

Akshay AgrawalAIR 43 · CSE 2018 · 187 wordsTheir whole copy

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→ (a) Hatred is the manifestation of person's inner sense of disgrace, envy, greed, unfettered passions and desires, and an inability of a loser to control his/her emotions.

Thus, it breeds all the sins a man can possibly commit → hence, the most harmful negative emotion.

Hatred leads to negative emotions and most common is - anger.

For example, hating a particular community on religious basis results into anger, frustration, possibly violent attacks, genocides, and worst of human crimes.

eg. Hitler hating Jews → the worst episode of human history of 20th century.

Hatred breeds from unfettered pride, arrogance, jealousy, unmitigated desires and an inability to control them.

Therefore, in order to control & manage, one needs to attack these germs of the problem.

(1) Meditation and Yoga. (2) Ideologies of great personalities like Kautilya, Vivekanand. (3) Positive peer group.

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Pride, arrogance and jealousy can be controlled by instilling moral values of tolerance & social responsibility. One must remember that "the ocean was not created only to wash their feet".

Similarly, desires must be rationalised and one needs lessons of self-actualisation to realise this. Spiritualism can help.

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Source: UPSC, Civil Services (Main) Examination 2020, General Studies Paper IV, Q2(a). The paper on upsc.gov.in. Themes and links to toppers’ answers are by UPSC Grade, not by UPSC.