Friday, 23 May 2014

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless when facing them.

When something stops us from inside. When we held our hands tight.
When cruelty crosses its way. When innocence down-trodden without sake.
If that neither you nor me, then who will raise voice against misdeed.


The lameness of shadow creates the fear. Fear imparts our senses, and we leave everything giving a phrase to Karma. From Mongols to Mughals, and to the British Empire, all invaded India. Our Nation's history is full of battles that our ancient rulers fought. Some we won, and some we lost. whether it is reigns of Maharana Pratap against Mughal Emperor, Akbar or it is Jhansi Ki Rani against East India Company, all battles showed the heroism and the ruler's fearlessness.  There were times when victory seemed to be impossible, peoples forced them to accept the defeat, person on whom they trusted betrayed them. But Rulers fought not for themselves, but for their peoples, for their future and for the honor of their ancestors. The battles were fought sacrificing their own interest, sacrificing their own prosperity, and sacrificing their own lives. And they won, in terms of some or other way. Battle of Marathon, Victory of Spanish against Aztecs, Greeks over Persians and many more are such examples.






And that what our mighty Gita says, " Karmanye Vadhikaraste, Ma phaleshou kada chana,Ma Karma Phala Hetur Bhurmatey Sangostva Akarmani ". Meaning : You have the right to perform your actions, but you are not entitled to the fruits of the actions. Do not let the fruit be the purpose of your actions, and therefore you won’t be attached to not doing your duty. Krishna tells Arjun that no matter what is the result of the war, he should not be worried about it. His duty is to fight, then he has to fight. He wins or loses that is not important. Even if he dies during the war, he will attain heaven because he has correctly performed his duty and lived for Dharma.    

The fear born neither from other person nor from the power that has more power from you, but it is from our self. Fear borns when we compare each other, it borns when we predict the outcome. And then comes the time when we lose faith from ourself, thoughts arise what will happen if we get defeated. That makes us more weaker, slowly and steadily fear grips our whole body, and left ourself trembling. Finally, we accept our defeat without giving any challenge to the power, which is called as cowardice. 

Courage is not self driven, but fear is. Courage ingrains when we overcome ourself, it innate when the result is not the purpose of our actions, and finally it connotes when we have self-believe. And the same belief was observed in hearts of our freedom fighters. They fought not for themselves, but for the Nation, for Country's people and the result is infront of us.                                        




The same belief is needed in our day today life. Whether we look at our society or at our work place, situations arrives when it is impossible to decide what to choose, whether to step ahead or to fall back. Remaining silent over injustice is quite common, we always bring our selfishness into it. And measure the prediction of outcomes  with our profits and loses. There is no harm to think for beneficial, but more important is to widen the thought process. Important is to give your full potential to the challenges, and that is possible when we live fearless. So, tomorrow when we look back then there should be no sorrows for being indifferent and there would be no one who can stop us from moving proudly, an so we can move keeping our head high.   


Wednesday, 7 May 2014

Circus on Road..

Circus was quite popular 15-20 years back, but it got diminished in day today life and it is replaced by cyber entertainment. The laughter of clowns, thriller of acrobats, and catch up of animals, where is it now. It is now on road. You must have seen small children, using their tactics to catch attention, and in return they request for coins. Clowns, standing infront of what we so called- Dhabas. And Animals, they are now very far from our sight.





Well, my concern over here is not to find these people, my concern is to segment them together to find where we lagged. Today, life is rolling on fast wheels, where we are alone. Either we watch others or we do not care. We admire our ideals, we admire the people that are successful. Questioningly, shouldn't we also look at these people, who are still fighting against hunger, risk and poverty. Our nation economics are far from these people, nation's development plans are far from their reach. Nation's policies are continuously depriving these people. Even during election time they are neglected, because they do not have Right to Vote. Undeniably, their statistics in nation census might not be correct.  What all government did till today is, destroyed their shelters, asked them to migrate to some other place, and that forced these people to come on road. Now road is giving shelter to Lakhs of people, and like circus: they are making money by catching people's attention.  


Nation prohibits Child Labor, isn't this kind of earning is not labor. Their parents are insufficient to fill their own stomachs, then who will pay for their daily expenses. Planning Commission of India has shown a decline of 2.18%, where the major decline was observed in rural (2.32%) as compared with urban (1.69%). If cities are called as advanced, then why there is decline. Answer to above observation is sure shot that  there is limited opportunities for the inner‐city poor to find adequate jobs, and so the scope for them to grow is limited. Now it's the high time that Government and Societies should come forward to raise them. Instead of donating reservation quotas to caste and minorities, some part should be allotted to them from it. That will help these poor children to get good education, while their parents can earn something by doing helping jobs.  The nation target should not only be to add to the numbers, but also to roll legislation and schemes more quickly, by that equal access and benefits can reach to the underprivileged section, so by that nation will have better governance.

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Let's build better tomorrow!


References: 
http://planningcommission.nic.in/news/pre_pov2307.pdf
http://www.censusindia.gov.in/
http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/stats-on-human-rights/statistics-on-poverty/statistics-on-poverty-in-india/
http://www.indiastat.com/economy/8/incidenceofpoverty/221/stats.aspx
http://www.unesco.org/most/asia12.htm