I give below an excerpt from my book “In Search of Our
Wonderful Words”. Maybe, you will find it useful. I will be encouraged if you
do.
“Our understanding of right human growth in the
modern age is grossly flawed. It is a one-sided development of building
abilities for making material gains in a competitive world. This kind of
development makes us eager and impatient for the satisfaction of our sensory
desires and treating luxuries of life as our necessities. It makes us selfish,
violent, greedy, and unconcerned about fellow human beings. We discriminate
others and are discriminated by others. We go on complicating things in our
life till we get trapped in the cobweb woven by us, having lost all escape
routes. We become slaves of our desires. We live as slaves and die as slaves.
We adopt a culture of more rights, more consumption, more self-centeredness,
more loneliness and more nothingness. It is a culture of massive wastes; waste
of material and waste of life. If we have no time to think about where we are
going and what we are doing, our expressions can be no better than the hoot of
an owl or the howl of a jackal.
No one expects that the world shall miraculously, in
a short time, become more congenial for a human life that is most useful for
the self and for the others, more creative, more meaningful, more contended and
more peaceful. But, one can change himself. Increasing numbers of people can
change them every day and become examples for others. We deserve a better life.
What we lack is some courage.”
PROMOD
KUMAR SHARMA
[This
blog is being presented by the author of “Mahatma A Scientist of the
Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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