CBSE Affiliation No. 1030239 Jhalaria Campus North Campus
CBSE Affiliation No. 1030239

The Three Monkeys

By Shlok Sabarwal, Class VI F

The story starts when a group of Chinese people visited India and gifted Gandhi ji a Chinese toy which had three monkeys on it. They said this is just a toy but it teaches a very important lesson. They said that each of the monkeys stood for something. The first monkey, Mizaru who sees no evil, the second monkey, Kikazaru who hears no evil and the third monkey, Iwazaru who speaks no evil. Gandhi ji kept this toy with them all lifelong. This knowledge was passed down to us but nowadays this knowledge has faded, people see evil, hear evil and speak evil. People thought to protest against evil but their method of protesting was wrong. They tried to fight evil with evil which increased the evil nowadays. When one sees or hears evil it’s like having a disease, first his body absorbs it and then the body tries to release it. It’s like stepping on a gum, it’s hard to get rid of it and we take it with us…

The worst part is that when we encounter evil we try to get others involved in it and we pass it on. Nowadays children can see evil everywhere they go. For example, news, games and movies are full of violence which makes the children imbibe the violence.  For example, on April 20, 1999 two students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were caught on the high school’s camera in the cafeteria shortly before committing suicide. This was the effect of seeing and watching evil.
We went to stop evil but we became a part of it. That is the reason why we need to bring back the three wise monkeys again. This doesn’t mean that we should stop protesting. This means that we should just change our manner of fighting evil. We should use peaceful manners to fight against evil and once again evil would not be a part of us.   
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