“Essentially
I am interested in this world, in this life and not in some other or a future
“so said one of the greatest man of 20th century' Pt. Jawahar lal
Nehru' and so I believe. I do not wish
to carve out a Utopian world for us to live and build castles in air. I love
this world of ours, yes: every inch of it. I feel the warmth of its embrace,
the tenderness of its caressing the grace of its love in every breath we take
and in every fleeting moment of our life.
Wherever
I have gone and studied the tender lines on the faces of the men, women, and
children, I have found something in common in them irrespective of
the caste, color, and creed. That something in common is the bubbling life, the
unconquerable spirit, and the manifestation of the Great in millions, the
reflection of the same light in the mirror of every heart. Whatever I am able
to study in my life with all my humble efforts, I am completely convinced of
oneness in humanity, the earnestness of each individual to live in peace and
harmony with each other. A strong current of love is flowing in the heart of
billions. Wherever I have talked with people I am able to feel the hate and
horror which nearly everyone has developed against war, the social and economic
exploitation and political, social or economical slavery in its every disguise.
But in spite of this
universality of humanism, I see the world of today in a very miserable plight.
It amazing and significant fact that in spite of all modern scientific progress
and talk of globalization and internationalism, racialism exploitation, violence and other separating
and destructive forces are at least as
much in evidence today, if not more, than at any previous time in history.There is something
lacking in all this progress and the value system which is hindering the
establishment of harmony between human beings.
Evil
has triumphed often in the past, but what is far worst, is the distortion and
twisting of what seemed so right. Is human nature so essentially naive and
foolish that it would take ages of teaching and training through sufferings and
misfortune, before it could behave reasonably and believe in goodness of every human being? and raise man above that creature
of hate and violence? Is every effort to change it radically in the present or
near future is doomed to failure?
