Today
our Indian society is going through one of the most turbulent phases of
evolution. It may be attributed to, rising aspirations; better education; media
exposure; opportunities and self-confidence amongst the youth. This rise but
natural and desirable but it’s the process of rise which is scary. All possible
social ills of a sick society are manifesting in the most adversarial manner.
This part could be blamed at system failure; failure to evolve from our
mind-sets; understand the larger picture of unity rather than the dots of
diversity and vote bank politics of divide and rule.
The
society and individual evolve at three levels – physical; psycho-somatic and
spiritual. To put it very simplistically, physical is what others see us in the
physical form; psychosomatic is our control of mind, emotions, and spiritual is
the capability to be at peace and state of bliss for most of times. They all
are intertwined- physical being the outer and spiritual the innermost with mind
being the middle one. The evolution is from outward to inward and any
disturbance in any plane vibrates the complete system. It could also be
explained with tendencies of saintliness; human and animals. The saintliness
implies for others; animal implies self and clan and human implies self, clan
and society to the extent it serves self-need of security and advancement. Everyone
has a component of all three, depending on one’s state of evolution, these
tendencies get exhibited- thus you witness a calm person becoming very violent
and vice versa. This is the behaviour dictated by the dominating tendency at a
point of time. A person who is generally selfish; short tempered; violent;
greedy has a hire component of the first kind.
A
human being must evolve materialistically and spirituality. In fact these two
facets are akin to the wings of a bird- a weaker wing implies inability to fly
or rise to the full potential. Thus the importance of evolution at all levels
with core priority being the spiritual evolution.
We
are hurling towards a materialistic or more towards animal trait society
without maintaining the crucial balance. Thus today we are witnessing the
fastest ever progress materialistically and perhaps the slowest ever at the
spiritual level. The consequences are there for us all to see and witness the
horror of violence and shameful behaviour on daily basis. This is across the
board starting from top with people trying to defend the indefensible by stupid
logic.
What
is the way out of this quagmire? There is an urge amongst the new generation
become wealthy with means being inconsequential, much against the teaching.
This unfortunately is being followed by young leaders who are probably the
youth icons – abuse/misuse of power to meet the greed needs being paramount; ways
being inconsequential. Who does one blame?
The
solution lies in balancing the materialist with spiritual; progressing with
appropriate means. Our physical appearances are booming – Miss Worlds/Universe
and Bollywood have the world eating out of our hands. We do have claim to fame
of beauty with minds. However our performance at the competitive games based on
physical prowess leaves much to be desired; however as society we do wonders in
ill-treating the poor and the helpless. Shame by any standards! Female sex is
performing better at the international arena then the men. Could this be an
attributing factor in the inferiority complex amongst Indian males? Thus we
have a long way to go towards individual excellence in physical prowess but
that was never our forte.
Are
we mentally fragile? Buckle under pressure, cannot take tough decision; keep
waiting for consensus; weal leadership; cannot take a principled stand; more
eager about others opinion; need certification of western world for good
behaviour and to accept our glorious past; unwilling to rewrite our history and
continue to follow the mutilated history handed over by rulers of centuries.
Ideas and new thoughts which was our strength is missing. Our efforts towards
the qualities of charity; empathy; kindness etc. seem to have disappeared. We
are weak at the mental level too—the middle sphere of evolution to the
ultimate.
Spiritual
which we gifted to the world seems to be on the wane too. We do have a large
number of spiritual gurus and preachers with questionable capabilities and
exploiting the fear and innocence of human beings. The religious places seem to
have become the symbols of greed, filth, turfs, controlling the folks through
fear; hate and reprisals and making no efforts to eradicate creeping social
ills or uniting the society by spreading spirituality.
We
do have large number of enlightened Gurus amongst mass of frauds and reasonably
high number of people leading a life bordering close to saintliness. There are
numerous families in India where love flourishes and they are contended and
happy people.
What can and Needs to be done
What
needs to be done? This question
can be answered easily. Pick up the best of Indian spiritual values where
evolution of individual body mind and spirit (dogmas; rituals; superstitions is
out) to attain the highest aim of blissful living and beyond. Simultaneously
pick up the best of modern science (remember our knowledge even today is far
less than the ignorance where matters of mind and spirit are concerned). A
suitable mix of the two which keeps evolving as our scientific knowledge keeps
discovering answers to mysteries. Thus a way of life evolving by picking up the
gems amongst the spiritual and scientific world is the way.
What can be done? This
is the difficult part to implement being trodden with challenges.
Stage one is the systematic assault on
superstitions and other barriers created by the guardians of religion. Caste;
rituals; gender discrimination; violence; greed; self-serving tendencies;
dowry; female foeticide; hygiene; merciless assault on nature ; hunger etc.
need to be addressed. Laws cannot solve these issues; these are best addressed
by the combined might of society with some leaders willing to face the wrath of
zealots. This will ensure physical well being of the society. The basic needs of
everyone are adequately addressed.
Next
is the battle of the mind. This implies priority of thought. It’s the thought
which ultimately becomes action. Righteous thoughts and action which address
the well being of most with correct path is the way. If everyone from the child
at home/school follows this we have made a major start. The child’s impression
and tendencies come from environments he is exposed to; therefore it implies
the parent and teachers have to walk the path of truth at home/school. The youth,
thereafter following the same at the formative stage with physical and mind
being correctly being addressed would be appropriate. Once the body and mind are
working in harmony, blissful; stress free; cheerful life is the outcome. The dots will become the mini revolutions to
initiate major societal changes. People live happily and ensure everyone is
happy. Fair play, charity, kindness and sharing become a norm of society. Society
is at peace with itself and moving towards positive evolution.
Thereafter
the most critical part being the spiritual, here the evolution is towards
greater aspects. Creativity, fine arts, inventions and discoveries; harmony;
peace, harmony with environments; animals and nature become part of the
holistic development.
It’s not that evil will vanish.
Certainly no. It will just happen that people with positive values are
dominating the society. This will happen when the momentum will pick up from individual
families to groups and the forces of negativity will commence retreating.
The
dots, we need to become and slowly it should become the tornado of change. We need
to be part of it to make a difference in case we wish to leave a great place to
our generations. This will ensure they enjoy Mother Nature and live life as
they say king size.
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