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."GNANA CHINTANE"
"SOCIAL SERVICE A NECESSITY - WHY ?"
( Submitted By
SHIVAMALLU bsstrust@yahoo.com.)
( This article mainly discusses about the
socio-cultural aspects of human life for the overall development of our
society)
World has already advanced quite far in the field of
Science and is still advancing using all the natural
resources available. To keep himself in peace and
happiness, man uses all his faculties scientifically,
puts forth more and more efforts and thus becomes more
and more prosperous materially.
Even today, putting forth a lot of effort, man is
engaging the next generation also in the same task. By
such efforts, man is becoming more prosperous
economically, whereby he can afford to buy whatever he
desires, to enjoy life. In this there is a
competition between man and man, each trying to excel
the other. In this struggle in life all he derives is
the zenith of unhappiness and dissatisfaction in life.
Man was earlier leading a happy and peaceful life
i.e., in the education of our forefathers, they had
lesson on devotion to Lord (Creature) and stories
leading to right thinking and living. These would
instil into the younger generation, right from
childhood the right knowledge, devotion to God
(Creature), a life of truthfulness and right conduct
as also respect and regard for the elders, the feeling
of oneness with people around, hospitality, the right
knowledge for man's survival and causes for
degeneration with the knowledge and understanding,
more than man's physical body; his inner self and
mental status were like a clean white sheet of cloth
without any crease or stain. Each was sharing the
happiness and sorrows of others, discussing philosophy
and God. He was feeling that he was a part of the
divine, in all his activities. He was also feeling
that any result accuring (good or bad) was bestowed by
God.
Those days, man always thought, in his heart of
hearts, of the existence of God. For example "the sea
has not form but taste (Saltish), but the salt
prepared out of sea water has some form and also
taste. When we think of this taste of salt as God, the
God has no form i.e., unmanifest. But if the
multitude (84 Lakhs) of living beings created by God,
enshrine the God in their hearts and understand that
He is guiding our activities and adore others as much
as they would adore God, they would lead a happy and
peaceful life."
By struggling aimlessly, he spoils his health and
starts using drugs and medicines prepared
scientifically. He creates for himself artifically
cool breeze and gardens. As the popultion increases,
the production of food and other things also increased
by scientific and modern methods. By using artificial
manure, the vitality of food produced reduces and man
gradully loses strength by consuming this and becomes
weak compared to our ancestors, who were having
unadulterated food, fresh air and physical exercise by
means of hard work. Day and night, he works very hard
in trying to improve his bad health and weakness. He
feels that his application is for his happiness and
satisfaction. But his mental peace and happiness are
a hundred times further away compared to the
improvement in life. This type of scientific and
modern life can be compared to the life of the bullock
tied to the oil mill. "The bullock of the mill gets
tired going round and round and slows down gradually.
Then grass is tied to a stick attached to the yoke;
when the bullock sees the green grass, it chases it
forgetting its fatigue, so that it can ear it. But in
vain. The bullock cannot avoid turning the mill
without benefit". So is the position of man
struggling between ill health and misery and good
health and happiness.
The factories and plants churning out material goods
on improved technology and the vehicles spewing out
smoke etc., pollute the atmosphere heavily and the
rivers are polluted and poisoned by pollutants,
leading to rapid deterioration of general health.
Thus, as it goes on, man's life gets filled with so
many worries; his physical and mental health also
deteriorate badly. With this mental state, he makes a
mountain of a mole hill as regards even his minor
problems in life. As time goes on, mankind many
perish. As a solution to all these problems, numerous
laws and rules are promulgated, by which country and
the individual will be lurking in darkness due to ill
health, unhappiness and loss of peace and mind.
To overcome all the above problems and to lead a
happy, peaceful and healthy life, we should first
understand ourselves. As the adage goes, "Of what use
is a man's life, if he does not lead a pure life, in
spite of his intelligence?". We human beings, with
all our intelligence, should strive to develop pure
knowledge as otherwise we should be wasting our
precious lives. We should be real human beings,
useful to society and to ourselves and not be a thorn
in the life of others.
We human beings, with out intelligence, should
develop proper human values and like our ancestors,
should lead a life, developing equanimity and
understanding with each other and not lead a life of
selfishness pestered by miseries and unhappiness and
we should go ahead with these in view.
Man, if he wants to lead a proper human life, having
real happiness, peace and tranquility and if he wants
to attain salvation, should just follow in the
foot-steps of our ancestors and understand the causes
for our miseries and degeneration and way to progress
and also make our own people and people around
understand them. Then and then alone, there will be
unity, each will understand the other and lead a life
of peace and happiness.
If we should see the distress and unhappiness are to
be eradicated from our society and country and peace
and happiness are to be established, it is absolutely
necessary that we should deeply think over and get the
correct understanding and knowledge. With this
thought, man becomes a real human being with a good
heart, sound mind and divinity, leading to salvation.
( Submitted By SHIVAMALLU bsstrust@yahoo.com.)
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