Shouldn’t We Mend Now?
An old saying is “Wise men
learn from folly of others and fools wait till they commit blunders
themselves”. A Dogri proverb means
“It is futile to repent folly when handcuffed; but to mend when free person to
escape being handcuffing”. We give sermons and pieces of good advice to
convince others to reform them selves. But we seldom think necessary to ponder
over our own weaknesses and correct
them. Our ego makes us think that whatever “I” think is correct even if it may
be miles away from the accepted truth. Who cannot differentiate in the present
day world between Right and Wrong? The simplest good behavior formula is to
behave with others as you wish others to behave with you. Otherwise as we sow so shall we reap? Do we need a
god man or mahatma to tell us every now and then that it is wrong to, lei,
weigh less, over charge, abuse any body, harm an innocent creature, waste food,
electricity, water, avoid corrupt means in one’s dealing, demand or snatch by
deceit which belongs to others, over speed or wrongly parking you vehicle,
reach late to office or work place,to obey established law and norms etc. etc.
Should we be reminded every day by a saint to behave as top of the creation
else KAL, MOUT KA FRISHTA, DEVIL or negative power shall
punish us after our death and put us in HELL. Even if a saint says so, how much
does it effect our daily dealing after we move out of Satsang, Namaj, Kirtan, and Prayer Halls? Salvation lies in action not in only listening sermons. Baba Jaimal
Singh (1839-1903) a Great Punjabi Mystic said “An ounce of practice is worth
more than a ton of theory: How long we shall go on deceiving our selves. Let us
try to be humans first then any thing else.
Almighty God, our Devine Father resides with in human frame, so all
human frames are equal and have Devine brotherhood relationship. Hence to Love
His children or creation is to love God. Buley Shah a Great Sofi Saint
proclaimed “RAB ASSAN TO BAKH NAHIN, PAR
DEKHAN WALI AKH NAHIN” meaning God is with us always, but we do not have
yet the Devine Eye to see Him. Our lust, ego, worldly attachment, greed and
anger, are the greatest hurdles on our way to right path and leading us away
from our goal of attaining salvation. First we have to be Human before making
attempt to becoming God realization. For this we need to control KAM (Lust) with chastity, KARODH (Anger, hatred) with tolerance, LOBH (Greed) with contentment, MOH (Attachment) with detachment and AHNAKAR (Ego, Pride) with Humility or
humbleness. Presently most of our actions do not qualify us as humans. Leave aside our goal of
Salvation or MUKTI many of us do not qualify to be called as
humans. Let us ponder over afresh on
our actions and judge our selves how much we are concerned about ourselves and
our fellow beings in our day to day worldly dealings.
Religion:
- All
religions preach oneness of human races.
Religion is a private or personnel matter of an individual. Indian
Constitution gives freedom to individuals to profess any religion of his or her
choice or faith. Government affairs are carried as per constitutional
provisions but religious matters as per the norms of the particular religion.
Both have independent spheres. So long as a religion is not creating problems
for the persons professing other religions, harmonious atmosphere prevails.
This is required of all religions to respect religious sentiments of other
religion persons. Different religions are to unite the people and not to create
fissures in society. Mystic Kabir preached “Bakhere
Bakhere Naam Dharande Ak Mitti De Bhandey”. Meaning Different Pots made out
of the same earth by a potter are named differently”. Here Kabir refers pots as
persons, Potter as God and the earth as our body material. So we should protect
our body and also of others by controlling anger, hatred and ego.
Driving:
- Are we not responsible for over 4, 90, 383 (2012) Lakh yearly accidents
on Indian roads?. This resulted in death of 1, 38,258 (2012) persons with over
75% our youth. Is not driving with out helmets, with out proper driving
licenses, over speeding, taking on Mobiles while driving, roaming animals on
roads, improperly maintained vehicles, hurry, drinking while driving, continued
use of vehicles beyond their road
worthiness age ,improper maintenance of roads, Rash driving, crisscrossing
improper maintenance and wrong parking
of vehicles. It has also been said that accidents on Indian roads are the most
deadliness in the world. As per WHO India losses $20 billion annually enough to
feed 50% of the nation's malnourished children. In J&K1366 got killed besides
10910 injured in 2006. If we responsibly behave on roads much of the loss on
this account can be avoided. Our ego, anger and ignorance are mostly
responsible for such losses. In my recent visit to USA,I found even bicycle riders wearing safe crash helmets, where as in India many toxicants
motorized two wheeler drivers dot not care to wear helmets.
Quit Use
of Tobacco and other intoxicants: - Smoking,
drinking and use of other intoxicants induces many ill health problems. WHO
estimated Tobacco use deaths 5 million or more people every year? Also second
hand smoking kills about 600,000 people every year. Tobacco use is the leading
preventable cause of death, so all should quit its use in all forms for his or
her health safety. Let the
manufacturers, traders and govt.
controlling agencies of such human
race killing intoxicants think of human
race and not only their trading profits and tricks. Human lust is responsible
for such huge avoidable human loss.
Corruption:
- Corruption is a world phenomenon now showing its ill
effects on all spheres. It has assumed different shapes. Different scams from
business house, Education, Army services, bureaucracy, politics, judiciary,
police ,almost majority of governinment supplies, medicines, medical equipment and
many other departmental services and purchases. Professor Bibek Debroy and
Laveesh Bhandari claim in their book Corruption in India: the DNA and RNA
that the public officials in India may be cornering as much as Rs
921.22 billion ($18.42 billion), or 1.26 per cent of the GDP, through
corruption. The book claims most bribery is in the transport industry, real
estate and government delivered services. Human greed and attachments to
worldly acts cause such avoidable acts. Scams are other shapes of corruption.
Greed of earning a little more interest than legitimate government agency, banks rates from private
cheats result in most of the scams and
money laundering.
Black Money:-
A November 2010 report from the Washington-based Global Financial Integrity estimates that over a 60-year period, India lost $213
billion in illicit financial flows beginning in 1948; adjusted for inflation, this
rose to $462 billion in 2010 dollars, or
about $8 billion per year ($7 per capita per year). The report also estimated
the size of India's underground economy at approximately $640 billion at the
end of 2008 or roughly 50% of the nation's GDP. Is it not shame for a nation
claiming to be world leader in morality teachings?
Black Money in Switzerland:-According to a 2010 The Hindu article, unofficial
estimates indicate that Indians had over $1456 billion in black money
stored in Swiss banks
(approximately USD 1.4 trillion) about 1.5% of India's GDP on average per annum
basis. Human greed and attachments to unnecessary worldly things are mostly
responsible for such acts.
Business and Corruption:- Public servants have very wide discretionary powers
offering the opportunity to extort undue payments from companies and ordinary
citizens. The awarding of public contracts is notoriously corrupt, especially
at the state level. Scandals involving high-level politicians have highlighted
the payment of kickbacks in the healthcare, IT and military sectors, games,
coal ,forest, construction industry deals etc. The deterioration of the overall
efficiency of the government, protection of property rights, ethics and
corruption as well as undue influence on government and judicial decisions has
resulted in a more difficult business environment. Human greed, ego and
attachments to worldly acts cause inhuman acts.
Scams: -
India lost incalculable amount in over 134 scams starting with one in 1948(Jeep scandal case) increasing
to 41 numbers in the year2012. A number of scams involve nearly $1000 billions
( One billion is 1- lacs crores).Human greed and attachments to worldly acts
cause such avoidable acts.
Bureaucracy:- Most of
the largest sources of corruption in India are entitlement programmes and
social spending schemes enacted by the Indian government. Examples include Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act and National Rural Health Mission , Public Distribution
System, License Raj. Other daily sources of corruption include India's
trucking industry which is forced to pay billions in bribes annually to
numerous regulatory and police stops on its interstate highways. A study
conducted by Transparency International in year 2005 found that more than 62%
of Indians had firsthand experience of paying bribes or influence peddling to get jobs done in public offices successfully. Long
time associate of Mahatma Gandhi and First Indian Governor –General of India Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari (1878-1972) warned that License Raj was often at the
core of corruption. Human with uncontrolled weakness like greed, anger, lust
and ego push persons to get involved in such unlawful activities.
Crime infected Politics: - The Indian voting percentage has never exceeded 70%
and no political party ever got 50% of absolute votes. So all along India is being ruled by parties in minorities by
political manipulations. As per
latest reports2013 out of 543(Lok Sabha)
members 162 (30%) have declared criminal cases with 14% as serious crimes
cases against them. The State Assembly members no way lack behind. Out of total
strength of 4032State Assembly MLA’s 1258(31%) of them have declared of facing
criminal cases with 15% having serious natures cases against them. Out of total
strength of Indian IAS officers 82% have stated that they faced political
pressure with 63% saying the pressure was severe in nature. Human uncontrolled
weakness like greed, anger, lust and ego are responsible for this act.
Female foeticide:- Foeticide is
destruction of a fetus. Female foeticide is a curse on the twenty first
century. Though people are educated and well groomed but still they overlook
the importance of female child. Pre-natal sex determination is done and hence
the fetus is aborted if a girl child is found. The crime has the involvement of
doctors, radiologist, gynecologists, nursing staff, young and old women and
men, mostly from affluent society
strata. Natural balance between human sex ratio has been adversely affected. In
some places the male, female ratio has declined to 888 females per 1000 males.
As such its our duty to educate and make those stuck into social dogmas aware
of this social sin. The prevailing laws must be made stricter and women must be
given their due position in the society. Those who believe in Manu’s theory
that, a man cannot attain moksha
(Salvation) unless he has a son or a grand- son to light his funeral pyre
(9:137; 9:158) need be curbed. Also, it says a woman who gives birth to only
daughters may be left in the eleventh year of marriage (9:81). But how Manu
forget sons are born from woman’s womb. Human lust, greed and ego are most
responsible for this great sin. A woman is punished to give birth to a girl
child, where she has no fault in fertilizing a female child chromosome.
Suicides:- Modern times mental social, financial, family stress besides physiological and over ambitiousness are some
of the causes of suicidal deaths. Last year Indian lost nearly 1,35,445 lives
in suicides. A study concluded that in 2010 India lost187,000 lives. Of the
114,800 males who took their own lives in India in 2010, 40% were aged 15 to
29, while 56% of the 72,100 women were in that age bracket. Human ignorance,
anger and ego are mostly cause of such avoidable acts.
Rapes:- Rape in India has been described by
Radha Kumar as one of India's most common crimes against women and by the UN’s human-rights chief as a “national problem”. The
latest estimate suggests a new case every 22 minutes. During 2011 in India6227 rape cases were
reported with North India accounted for
25.73%.According to 2012 statistics, New Delhi has the highest number of
rape-reports among Indian cities. According to a BBC report in February 2013,
more than 7,200 children are raped each
year in India. Underage victims who do report the assaults are often subjected
to mistreatment and humiliation from the police. A landmark government survey
in 2007 revealed that a lot of children in India are physically abused and that
such occurrences are ″disturbingly common″ In January 2013,
a 7-year old girl was raped in the school
toilet while studying at school in Goa. Lust ,Ego and Anger in man is solely
responsible for rapes.
HIV:- The human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that
causes the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, a condition in humans in which
progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic
infections and cancers to thrive. In 1986, the first known case of HIV was
diagnosed by Dr. Suniti Solmon amongst female sex workers in Chennai. Later
that year, sex workers began showing signs of this deadly disease. At that
time, foreigners in India were traveling in and out of the country. It is
thought that these foreigners were the ones responsible for the first infections.
The estimated number of people living with HIV was 2.08 million in 2011. It
said a total 1.7 million people had died across the world due to AIDS
related illness. In India, the figure for such deaths stood at 170,000 in 2009.
The report says India has contributed enormously to the AIDS response. This
deadly disease is caused only due to human folly. Uncontrolled sexual acts of a
few human has landed the world in a disease finding difficulties to control and
save human race world over.
NPA in Banks:-Starting with 1955 till now 30 Indian Banks were Nationalized .The idea behind was that Public sector banks
shall give preference to priority sectors in advancing loans. Thus,
nationalisation will promote efficiency in management of financial resources
with banks.. This was felt necessary to achieve the socialistic patter of the
society, which needed financial resources in a big way with better control and
management under government authority.
But accounts of only 40 listed
Banks have landed the country into NPA
of Rupees 3.1 Lakh crores(March-2013) with chances to touch Rupees 4
Lakh crores by March 2014. Big and medium business houses rule the rost.Only
greed and mismanagements are responsible for this huge amount to get locked in
non performance assets. Human greed and
worldly attachments are solely responsible for such acts.
Humans, particularly political party and
religious activists are wasting much of their and others time, money and
resources on act responsible for general public miseries, wastage of time,
money, energies and goodwill. Such acts include Bands, Hartals celebrating
anniversaries, Jankies, arranging satsangs, kirtans ,Namaj, festival, marriage
processions and many such other acts on
roads and in public parks. A majority of religious buildings have come up on
Government or local bodies lands, parks, canal, river banks etc.
During all these ceremonies roads and bridges are closed with out any
advance warning or suggesting alternative routes. Such unplanned processions on
common roads are responsible for national wastages and avoidable inconveniences
to public particularly, week, old, diseased persons, office goers and school
children. We do not care to even obey the Highest Indian Court ruling where in
Bands, Hartals , procession causing
human inconveniences and burning of government and private properties are
banned. Uncontrolled noises produced by music systems, religious ceremonies,
automobiles, particularly at night are very injurious to health. These noises
not only cause ill health effects on children but affect their studies and
sleep as well.
