The Climb

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In a scene from GOT's Episode 6 of Season 3 titled 'The Climb', Lord Varys and Littlefinger are in the throne room throwing barbs at each other while trying to expose the other's hidden ambitions. At one point Littlefinger has Varys down and Varys retorts by saying whatever he did was for the good of the realm. For me, this scene nicely sums up the entire GOT.
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Varys: I did what I did for the good of the realm.
Littlefinger: The realm? Do you know what the realm is? Its the 1000 blades of Aegon's enemies; A story we agree to tell each other over and over, till we forget that its a lie.
Varys: But what do we have once we abandon the lie? Chaos! A gaping pit waiting to swallow us all.
Littlefinger: Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to the realm or the gods or love. Illusions....Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.
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Replace the realm with so-called 'state of param vaibhava', Iron throne with personal/political ambitions and chaos with 'directionless Hindu society'.
Many have climbed to the top, many have tried, many are trying the climb now, using the chaos(Hindus), in the name of the realm(param vaibhava) to reach their individual Iron Thrones(personal ambitions). Next time you commit to something, ensure that you are not being a rung in the ladder for someone else to reach their throne in the name of the good of the nation.

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