Time is on Our Side
Tuesday November 9 2004 09:08 IST
By Karmayogi
The youth in India are breathing the
fresh air of Freedom. The contrast in attitudes towards life between the youth
and the aged is marked.
The youth are optimistic, hopeful, forward-looking, and feel whatever they do
will be successful. The senior citizens are unable to recall any optimism in
their youth. Their youth was characterised by pessimism, diffidence, fear,
shrinking and doomsday thinking. This is the greatest gift of Freedom to us.
Man feels free in every nation that is free. Europeans who were under the
thraldom of class discrimination felt such a freedom on reaching the American
soil. We in India knew life to be cruel, society to be oppressive,
even law unhelpful because we were poor. In those days, the Indians felt that
Time itself was an oppressor. This is no longer true.
Life is supportive, society always lends a helping hand and Time is on our
side.
When Time changes into something positive, still the society, law, and family
have to do their bit for us to avail of the boon. The untouchables to whom life
was a tyrant witnessed such a change when law and constitution favoured them
with reservation. No longer is untouchability a curse; perhaps it is felt to be
an advantage.
Since 1900, the world is coming together in varying measures. That was why when
the wave of the American Stock Market crash began, it spilled over to Europe and ruined millions
of families in Asia.
Now is the time for such a wave of Prosperity to start and gradually spread
over all countries, because Time is on our side, Life is benevolent, and
Society is compassionate. As we passed an act abolishing untouchability and
offering concessions to those who were oppressed, to avail of this great BOON
of God present in the atmosphere of the earth, laws have to be passed and
attitudes of various societies should change.
The Government of India deserves warm appreciation and rich congratulation in
contemplating one such act – an act to guarantee employment in some measure.
This is an act proper to the developed countries, but India, precariously
perched in various ways, has initiated it. Sure, She is trying to be an
evolutionary leader in the sphere of SOCIAL EVOLUTION.
I see spiritual benevolence and wisdom behind this move. No country except the USSR offered full
employment. She did for 70 years. The guarantee of work is the basis of
economic security. I hope this is a beginning and the government will pursue
the Act with the public, the State governments, the judiciary, and their own
administration for the right social attitude that will infuse life into the
SPIRIT of this Act.
The National Farmers' Commission and the other commission recently set up
to promote employment in the informal sector are great, positive steps. The
government is evincing an unprecedented dynamism of conception. GOI is knocking
on the wide doors of prosperity.