An old proverb says, “A rolling stone gathers no moss’’. This
is an age of extra-ordinary hurry. At each station in our lives, we collect
whatever we can with a quick sweeping action and then hop to the next station.
We have been made to learn that in this competitive world if we relax or waste
time with things that do not provide us any material benefit, we lag behind
others. We have no time to think or ponder over as to what we are doing. Is
this the age of ‘the rolling stones’?
We are
intelligent beings and are free to act according to our choice, unlike the
animals who act instinctively. We have to bear the consequences of our actions.
We, the busy people, a definite minority in this world, also make others, in a
big majority, to bear the consequences of our actions. Can we be absolved of
the responsibility of our actions by saying that as long as we follow the
instructions we have received during our education as to how to do things in
this world we have ‘acted in good faith and without negligence’?
We do not
know what the Divine laws are; we never tried to know about them. We have
elected those who rule us and decide the way we must act. We must recall that
we modernized ourselves to secure our rights and our freedom, hence we are
responsible if things do not work the way we expect them to. Maybe, it is high
time that we evaluate and re-evaluate what we are doing. We must stay a bit
longer wherever we are.
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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