The scriptures say that the actions that are
not perfectly selfless, that is, those, that are not free of the desire of
their fruits, bind us. Let us take the case of technological growth and
development. Man has dedicated his intellectual abilities for technological
growth not that much for the reducing drudgeries of bodily efforts of the
poorest and the weakest of the human beings, as he has done it for his comforts
and luxuries and also that of a few others who had already been living in much
comfort. The outcome is that the entire human race has become almost a slave of
the technology; the technology that can be considered as the ‘inhuman’ child of
the modern man.
Had
the technology been a human child it would have served the entire human race
and made its life at least a little more satisfying than it had ever been. Today,
we cannot think freely. We cannot even stop for a while to take stock of the
circumstances we are trapped in. Our physical, intellectual and spiritual
growth follows a pattern that makes our mind restless. A part of our mind is
proud of our intellectual prowess, and the other tries to find solace in
worthless illusions and superstitious mysticism. By no stretch of imagination,
we are free. We are in the captivity of highly sophisticated, rather confused
state of intellectual complication.
Spirituality
is not a matter of something beyond our life as has been made out by many. It
involves us totally in every moment of our lives. To live in captivity of our
selfishness or to become free through selflessness is a choice that is entirely
our own.
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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