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Look Before You Leap – What is Prudence?

Bharat Darshan Asks You to Look Before You Leap. What is Prudence?

Prudence has a role in all the concerns of life. The right end, whether that be the goal of personal happiness or the common good of society, or the performance of one’s duties, cannot be achieved unless the means to it are rightly chosen. Prudence can be acquired through learning to take sufficient counsel and to deliberate enough before taking any action. The habit of prudent action can be gained by a remembrance of the past experience, by the understanding of what is present, and providing for the future by resolving thoughts and making decisions and commanding their execution.

Lord Hanuman’s Leap – Prudence is Indispensable to Good Human Life

Lord Hanuman’s Leap of Faith – A Lesson in the virtue of Prudence

The Indian epic poem of ‘RAMAYANA‘ describes life journey of Lord Rama, the Prince of the Ayodhya Kingdom who was exiled to live in the forest. The story narrates the abduction of His wife, Princess Sita. While searching the forest to find Sita, Lord Rama befriends the ‘VANARA’ or Monkey Forces of Kishkindha Kingdom. The Vanara King Sugriva in an effort to find Sita dispatched his forces in all directions with very strict orders to report back within a month. The search party that proceeded southwards eventually reach the southern sea-shore at the end of their appointed time for reporting back to the King. While they were feeling anxious about their delayed mission, they receive a vital clue about Sita held captive in the island kingdom of Lanka ruled by the demon King Ravana. The search party now gets fearful about the course of action they have to choose. They seek counsel from the eldest member of their party. They decide against returning home with secondhand information about Princess Sita’s whereabouts. After due deliberation, they choose to physically verify the accuracy of the information about Princess Sita’s presence in the island. The action that they selected requires crossing the sea, entering an enemy kingdom, searching diligently tightly guarded places, and returning safely crossing the sea one more time. In the context of this story, as there is no land bridge to reach the island, the safest way to get there is to jump across the sea in one leap. The party’s elder leader recommends entrusting Hanuman with this difficult and challenging mission. The choice of Hanuman is prudent because of His strength, courage, intelligence, and other special abilities like changing of body size at His discretion.

The story describes that Hanuman stood on a hill by the name of Mahendra to gain advantage for the proposed leap. He looks at the sea and directs His mind towards the island of Lanka. He is sure about His devotion to Lord Rama and He is certain about His desire to fulfil Lord Rama’s purpose. He said to Himself: “I shall search and find Sita. I shall fly in the sky and cross the sea.” However, He undertakes this mission with a sense of absolute modesty and humility. He offers worship and prayers to God and to all creation before He leaps into the sky with a roar of triumph. With that leap, Hanuman’s role in the story of Ramayana reaches heroic proportions and continues to be very exalted till the end of the story.

The Quality of Prudence

Bharat Darshan Asks You to Look Before You Leap. What is Prudence?

The quality of prudence is most concerned with action. Prudence is a product of experience and a possession of reason. The maxims of prudence are counsel, deliberation, and judgment. A prudent man knows how to deliberate or calculate well about things to be done. He evaluates the negative as well as the positive consequences of his actions. Prudence also shapes the character of the person. Use of unjust or dishonest means to achieve the end or goal set for oneself is not prudence. ‘ One cannot have prudence unless one has the moral virtues; since prudence is the right reason about things to be done, to which end man is rightly disposed by moral virtue’. The choice of the best means is as important as the election of the right end. The clever thief who plans and executes a successful robbery exhibits no prudence but its counterfeit called cunning. The rightness of the means requires not merely that they are adapted to an end, but that the end itself be right.

Bharat Darshan Asks You to Look Before You Leap. What is Prudence?

Prudence has a role in all the concerns of life. The right end, whether that be the goal of personal happiness or the common good of society, or the performance of one’s duties, cannot be achieved unless the means to it are rightly chosen. Prudence can be acquired through learning to take sufficient counsel and to deliberate enough before taking any action. The habit of prudent action can be gained by a remembrance of the past experience, by the understanding of what is present, and providing for the future by resolving thoughts and making decisions and commanding their execution.

A Prayer to Lord Hanuman

Bharat Darshan Asks You to Look Before You Leap. What is Prudence?

Having known that my human body is deficient of intelligence, I call upon Pavan Kumar (Son of Wind God or Vayu) asking Him to grant me strength, intelligence, and true knowledge to dissolve all of my blemishes which cause pain and misery.

Bharat Darshan Asks You to Look Before You Leap. What is Prudence?

Whole Dude – Whole Prudence

The Peacemakers.
Whole Dude – Whole Prudence: The Peacemakers. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Whole Dude – Whole Prudence: President Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65, 16th president of the U.S.(1861-65) must be recognized as a man of great prudence. In his famous Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863 he said: “and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, with a minority of the popular vote to become the 16th president of the United States. To the South, Lincoln’s election was a signal for secession. By his Inauguration Day, seven states had seceded, and four more seceded after he issued a summons to the militia. It was a very difficult and challenging time in the entire history of the United States. Lincoln handled the vast problem of the Civil War (1861-65) with prudence, skill, and vigor. In the war between Union and the eleven Southern seceded states (Confederacy), preserving the Union remained his main aim. In 1863 he moved to free the slaves by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation and later U.S. Congress could pass the Thirteenth Amendment. His thoughts on the war and the sacrifice were beautifully expressed in the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. More Americans lost their lives in Civil War as compared to any other war in which the United States has participated. The Union was saved, and slavery was abolished.

Whole Dude – Whole Prudence:

Whole Dude-Whole Prudence: Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln during September 1862. United States has officially abolished the practice of slavery and has now institutionalized the practice of Servitude and the Union has transformed from a ‘Free State’ into a ‘Slave State.’

The quality of prudence is most concerned with action. Prudence is a product of experience and a possession of reason. The maxims of prudence are counsel, deliberation, and judgment. A prudent man knows how to deliberate or calculate well about things to be done. He evaluates the negative as well as the positive consequences of his actions. Prudence shapes the character of the person. Use of unjust or dishonest means to achieve the end is not prudence. One cannot have prudence unless one has the moral virtues; since prudence is right reason about things to be done, to which end man is rightly disposed by moral virtue. The choice of the best means is as important as the election of the right end. The clever thief who plans and executes a successful robbery exhibits no prudence but its counterfeit called cunning. The rightness of the means requires not merely that they be adapted to an end, but that the end itself be right. Prudence has a role in all the concerns of life. The right end whether that be the goal of personal happiness or the common good of society cannot be achieved unless the means to it are rightly chosen. Prudence can be acquired through learning to take sufficient counsel and to deliberate enough before taking action. The habit of prudent action can be gained by remembrance of the past experience, by the understanding of what is present and providing for the future by resolving thoughts and making decisions and commanding their execution.

WholeDude.com aims at presenting a Marketing Strategy or Formula to provide service to people who are identified as Whole Dudes. Prudence is the Core Value chosen by WholeDude.com to provide its service by careful selection of right means to serve its right purpose. I say, we must use prudence to make our choices and to plan our actions in all things of Life. What do you want to say?  Please share your thoughts and views. 

Whole Dude – Whole Prudence