The
people who are not considered much educated do only those things that they have
learned. The people who are considered educated also do things that they have
learned, but use some ‘foreign’ word, definition or theory to justify why they
do a particular thing, and in a particular way. We have many instructions to
give to our young children when they start interacting with the external world.
Such instructions have a clear objective to make our children constantly think
about protecting their physical self from many threats, real or imaginary, from
the external world. The animals also do it, but in their case the threats are
always natural, not ‘animal made’. For us, the human beings, the threats are
predominantly man made. We give to this process of imparting education to the
young children to help them conduct in the human society a nice name; we call
it ‘socializing’.
Socializing
is meant for making a child a responsible constituent of the society. Any
society needs much useful contribution from its constituents for its right
growth. A society developed on humanitarian principles and consideration does
much to protect the man from such elements that may harm him. The proper
development of any society comes first; the protection of man is consequential.
A society that does not breathe the thought of humanity is nothing but a
disorderly mob of human beings. Whatever we tell our young ones is all useless
if the underlying thoughts do not go beyond learning as to how to adjust to the
ways of the society to meet our selfish needs that are not natural, but are
cultured.
If
we learn how to deal with our societies to fulfill our selfish motives, in all
likelihood, we will alienate ourselves from other human beings. To diffuse
ourselves well with fellow human beings with the intent of creating a nonviolent and truthful world, we
have to nurture our societies. The man badly needs constructive and
rejuvenating support from the society he lives in. Alienation has not come upon
us by any chance or design, it is our own creation.
The
man becomes progressively less and less burdened when his identity is diffused
with the identities of his fellow beings, the universe and, then, the eternal
source of the infinite creative energy.
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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