AAL AYL

[Guest guest]

Take Heart!

 

When we say that human values are deteriorating, we must be sure that

these human values are, how are they worsening and what we can do to

restore them. At various levels, people out of concern are doing what

they can to address the situation, through seminars, workshops and

conferences on this topic. Deep within our hearts each one of us knows

what to do, but when it comes to action, it just does not happen.

 

Once a journalist asked me whether I was alarmed by the present

condition of the youth. He was surprised when I replied in the

negative. Human beings have the free will to destroy themselves and

conversely have also the ability to rebuild that which has been

devastated. This is the beauty of human nature. There is a famous

saying, 'All that goes up must come down.' The flip side would be --

'All that has come down must go up'. If there is downfall, there can

be a rise also. So, though the present situation is nothing to lose

heart about, it is not something to feel happy about either. By

getting depressed, we would only be harming the cause of upliftment.

 

One reason for the growing decadence is that we have given more

importance to things, to valuable goods than to values. The second

thing we need to ponder upon is that the important things in life are

not things. Every person has the inherent desire to enrich his or her

life. First we want security followed by comfort and then greater

pleasure. We want to bigger house and more things around us. These are

the signs of prosperity and based on this we call a nation developed.

Those who have more material things, a higher income per capita and

the ability to spend more money are labeled prosperous.

 

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