Me, My Guru - on On being part of the Society and Social responsibilities!
“Then it is the duty of the Nation to educate us of our responsibility.
And it hasn’t. So, it is failure of the State. Not ours! Right?” asked someone.
What audacity! Now I felt ashamed of being part of this group who had
similar doubt on tax. How conveniently selfish and irresponsible were we? We
were pushing our greed, selfishness onto Nation. We didn’t have courage even to
face our frailties. How could we! Then we had to be more responsible towards
Nation and that was not good for us! I laughed at myself on this understanding.
Later, when we discussed amongst ourselves we understood that we were so even
in our other relationships be it our family, office, our community. We never
felt part of any of this ‘Units’ of society. That actually was responsible for
our loneliness and pain and suffering in our life.
More a person was ‘selfish’, more was his depression,
listlessness and less of self-worth and self-esteem. The more a person
identified himself with his family, office or community the more happier was he
and more confident he was. No doubt, it is often told by her ‘one who is happy,
peaceful and content is not one who owns lot or receives a lot but one who
gives more. All these years we thought she was talking of giving ‘materials and
money’ to others and it pained us a lot to follow that saying. But now we saw,
she didn’t mean it. She meant ‘one who gave of himself’. Materials and money
was nothing compared to that. Every social activist did his work only because
he connected with his cause and its related people or principle. And hence they
gave of themselves and more and yet were not content and that brought them glory,
success and respect. We didn’t see this simple connection all this years. No
doubt we still asked “When am I going to be happy since all the people in my
life are never up to my taste and liking?”
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