<!--QuoteBegin-Ravish+Oct 10 2006, 04:17 AM-->QUOTE(Ravish @ Oct 10 2006, 04:17 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->It has nothing about individuals, I have full respect of others and their ways of life.
The simple point I am trying to make is that there is erosion of Indian values and the process is continuing at a very fast pace.To arrest the situation what should be the stratigy...
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Let me share a story. I think it is from Sri Shiv Puran.
Once upon a time there was a rich and vast kingdom. The king was a devout Shiv devotee, and a very able administrator, very worthy king. Slowly Slowly the kingdom's wealth started declining, people started to turn to crimes, drinking and gambling were on the rise. Famines started becoming frequent. Donations to Bhikshuks dropped. People stopped sending their childern to gurukuls.
King tried to analyze all the possible root causes of the situation that had befallen, but could not see why that was happening. He then called on a great sage who used to live in the nearby forest. Sage promised to meditate over the situation, and come back to the king in a weeks time.
After the week had passed, the sage came to the king, and said he had found out the remedy of the situation. There was an ancient Shiv temple in the capital, which had a huge pond which had gone dry for long time. Sage told the king that the pond needs to be filled with cow's milk. One spoon or glass of milk had to come from every family living in the capital. And that had to be done only on the midnight of coming Amavasya.
King announced this in capital that all families should bring little bit of milk to the pond on Amavasya midnight. Thus it happened. People gathered in thousands, that night and pond was filled.
Next morning, sage took the king to the temple, and they noticed that the pond was filled with water rather than the milk. All the people previous night thought since everyone else was bringing the milk, what if they themselves only brought water. This way everyone brought water and no one milk - and the pond got filled with water and not milk.
Sage explained, that this was the cause of the situation in his kingdom. Everyone expected others to do something, but nobody did anything for their own self.
Our situation is not very different. As I had pointed before, soceity is nothing but a collection of individual. As long as we ourselves are not upto the ideals we are expecting from soceity, soceity will never be upto those ideals.
What is needed is to bring salvation from inside. There is nothing which will happen from outside. Noone else but "I" can improve the situation.
Shivaji, Vivekanand will take birth in our own homes and not neighbours. But we need to make the environment of "OUR" home, such. Needs personal sacrifices. Only those who are doing those sacrifices, have the right to complain about the declining values of the society.
The simple point I am trying to make is that there is erosion of Indian values and the process is continuing at a very fast pace.To arrest the situation what should be the stratigy...
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Let me share a story. I think it is from Sri Shiv Puran.
Once upon a time there was a rich and vast kingdom. The king was a devout Shiv devotee, and a very able administrator, very worthy king. Slowly Slowly the kingdom's wealth started declining, people started to turn to crimes, drinking and gambling were on the rise. Famines started becoming frequent. Donations to Bhikshuks dropped. People stopped sending their childern to gurukuls.
King tried to analyze all the possible root causes of the situation that had befallen, but could not see why that was happening. He then called on a great sage who used to live in the nearby forest. Sage promised to meditate over the situation, and come back to the king in a weeks time.
After the week had passed, the sage came to the king, and said he had found out the remedy of the situation. There was an ancient Shiv temple in the capital, which had a huge pond which had gone dry for long time. Sage told the king that the pond needs to be filled with cow's milk. One spoon or glass of milk had to come from every family living in the capital. And that had to be done only on the midnight of coming Amavasya.
King announced this in capital that all families should bring little bit of milk to the pond on Amavasya midnight. Thus it happened. People gathered in thousands, that night and pond was filled.
Next morning, sage took the king to the temple, and they noticed that the pond was filled with water rather than the milk. All the people previous night thought since everyone else was bringing the milk, what if they themselves only brought water. This way everyone brought water and no one milk - and the pond got filled with water and not milk.
Sage explained, that this was the cause of the situation in his kingdom. Everyone expected others to do something, but nobody did anything for their own self.
Our situation is not very different. As I had pointed before, soceity is nothing but a collection of individual. As long as we ourselves are not upto the ideals we are expecting from soceity, soceity will never be upto those ideals.
What is needed is to bring salvation from inside. There is nothing which will happen from outside. Noone else but "I" can improve the situation.
Shivaji, Vivekanand will take birth in our own homes and not neighbours. But we need to make the environment of "OUR" home, such. Needs personal sacrifices. Only those who are doing those sacrifices, have the right to complain about the declining values of the society.