Festivals fill our minds with happiness, hopes and
aspirations. Diwali, the festival of Lights is no different, but we put
in hardly any effort to understand the rationale behind it.
In Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, there is a verse that
enunciates the significance of Light: ‘Asato ma sadgamaya, Tamso ma
jyotirgamaya, Mrityor ma amritam gamaya...’. Contrary to this sagacious
adage, the current year is turning out to be a ‘Diwali of scams’! Look at
the instances of alleged plundering of public trust in broad daylight in the
Indian Premier League, 2G Spectrum, Commonwealth Games, Adarsh Housing Society,
Lavasa Hill city...
The Upanishad exhorts us to move away from Delusion
to Reality; from Darkness to Light; and from Death to Eternity. But to many, Delusion
is merely a Reality of opportunities, with the Light helping them loot and the
Darkness to hide it, and the greed instilling an elevated sense of Eternity
over other lesser mortals! What is sought is deliverance, not from ignorance
but the clutches of law. The chase is for money, power and possessions, not
knowledge, values or virtues.
Bess Myerson once said: The accomplice to the crime
of corruption is our own indifference.
May the festivals help us wake up to this truth.
How can it be conveyed better. I wish we had acted against these scoundrels.
ReplyDeleteYes. You are right sir. In this competitive world people purposely forget the morals and values in their own profession. The single criteria...they adopted is Money. Means " Baap bada na Maiyya...sab se bada rupaiyya " For that they can do anything and they will go to any level to justify those acts.
ReplyDeleteI join your prayers to show them light in their life.
Good post sir.
What goes around, comes around!
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