MAN AND SYSTEM – THE ETERNAL SUBJUGATION – AND THE WAY OUT

MAN AND SYSTEM – THE ETERNAL SUBJUGATION – AND THE WAY OUT

Thousands of years of Human History is replete with examples when ordinary men (and that includes women too) have suffered at the cost of certain influential sections – some people who are more important than the others by virtue of the power they yield or the wealth they posses or the respect them command or a combination of all three or any two. The common men have always faced the brunt of vagaries of nature, the pain of deprivation, social ire, the punishment for being audacious with someone more powerful, intra-family hardness, to name   just a few. The case is all the more tough for physically and mentally handicapped, the helpless among the women, Unlooked for and uncared for very senior citizens, discriminated religious-cultural-ethnic minorities, the ostracized castes and communities, and other social outcastes (Like Eunuchs).

For all the suffering common men of the world there is only one category – the suffering community. Man is but an object, a very small thing for the world. There are numerous levels at which these suffering people suffer, a dwarf is ridiculed throughout his life for the shortness in height, a  person with leprosy is shunned from society, humiliated, and some times beaten up for ‘no fault of his’,  a daughter of a family is raped and the father and other members can’t do anything because the culprits are the sons and relatives of an influential local MLA and strongman. World is indeed a cruel place, particularly so in the lower economic classes, where adultery is most common, wife beating – a symbol of manhood, this because they hardly have the luxuries and comforts of life, and have been hardened by circumstances.

With all the due respect to great leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Mrs Indira Gandhi, Mr Rajiv Gandhi ; the deaths and assassinations of these leaders were given national importance and treated as calamities, while on the other side Kallu Chamar dies of lung infection as he had no money for treatment, in a sleepy village of Eastern Uttar Pradesh, an unknown, silent and unceremonised insignificant death. A Hindu is killed mercilessly by Muslim Mobs in Bangladesh, his property looted, his wife raped and forced into marriage and Islam. Hindu Mobs kill hundreds of Muslims in Gujarat for no fault of theirs to avenge the deaths of Godhra carnage. The war of vengeance and hatred takes it’s toll and kills ordinary men.

This eternal subjugation of the common man has been explained by different philosophies and ethical systems in their own ways. Well I would say something in a single sentence, crisp and clear – No System whether it’s Capitalism, Socialism, Marxism or Democracy can change the world all together. They can only create better environment, better opportunities so that people can grow and prosper, but essentially the World stays a dangerous place.

It is here that Spirituality, particularly The Hindu Vedantist Philosophy comes to our rescue. All happens because of Karma. There are evil men because of their karma, we got to stay away from them, ignore them and do not get annoyed thinking about them as it will only make us unhappy and vulnerable. On the contrary, if it’s necessary to handle them we must manage them with care and caution. We got to be ethical, full of love, cheerfulness and confidence, and at the same time worldywise and spiritually selfish as all of us are  ultimately individuals. The fact that the world is bad must not deter us from being good, but we must be on our toes, cautios, careful and alert. In essence, Love, confidence, positivity, cheerfulness are the qualities which make a Human more and more ‘humane’ and ensures his bright presence and golden future.

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