A CLEAR PICTURE OF THE 4 LEGS OF TRUE RELIGION - 3

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4) WHOLESOME AND OPTIMUM USAGE: Generally wholesome usage is with reference

to material objects. All those materials that we own and are being used by

us should be maintained aptly and we must ensure that they are never wasted.

While using materials always keep in mind that if you refrain from wasting

them many others who need them can benefit greatly. Materials must be

maintained in a wholesome and optimal manner. This is because of lack of

proper maintaining will render them prematurely useless and in some cases

may prove to be dangerous for its user. All these observations hold cent

percent true for the creation, usage and expenditure of wealth. In addition

it is man’s prime duty to ensure that water and the atmosphere remain

unpolluted. Misuse of materials involves lack of apt usage and in the

process destroying them, disallowing others to get their rightful share and

maintaining them in a very undesirable manner.

 

Behind the belief of looking upon hoarding as sin and charity as a

meritorious deed lies the philosophy of abstinence of using materials when

not required to do so and disallowing materials from piling up unused in one

place. Piling up materials for a great length of time induces their rotting.

If we insist on hoarding things many bad habits and distortions breed in our

minds. The flames of envy are fanned and thus crimes proliferate in society.

Modern socialism and communist principles agree with this observation. This

can be said to obstruct misuse of wealth and instead use it aptly and

optimally.

 

Today the leaders of the corporate world opine that more various goods are

manufactured (TV, mobiles, computers etc) the more profits will be reaped.

Hence when they produce more goods they lure people into buying them even

when the buyer either does not need it or that it is well beyond his/her

means. Yet according to corporate philosophy one will become wealthy and

more comforts can be added to the kitty. USA and other developed nations

vote in favor of this philosophy. They do not realize that our globe’s

natural resources will deplete perilously and that industrial pollution will

reach alarming levels. (Already everyone is worried about global warming).

Mechanics working with machines overtime tends to face dire health problems.

Excess work will induce drug abuse and excess alcohol intake. Thus what we

are trying to say that all this amounts to misuse of materials. The middle

path involves using technology that does not pollute our globe and that

production targets should be only as much is required by society. In this

manner in comparison to gigantic industries people will get more jobs.

Simple living and not wasting materials will obstruct their misuse. Those

materials that remain in excess must be distributed amongst that backward

classes of society especially those that live below the poverty line. Simple

living must always be conjoined to high thinking. Simplicity not only breeds

a good character but that because of it when our time, efforts, intellectual

capacity and wealth gets saved the same can be utilized for world well being

activities. Wherever the ideal of wholesome usage of materials proliferates

there hoarding of wealth too will be abstained from. Instead this excess

wealth will be used for activities meant for society’s well being. This

farsighted thinking can truly be called apt usage of material wealth. It can

also be said to be a gesture of goodwill towards Mother Nature on man’s

part. Such sacred activities must be broadcasted and propagated all over the

world.

 

............. to be continued ................

 

Author : Pt shriram Sharma Acharyaji

 

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Venkat Koppaka