Maya And Leela: Utility In Life’s Futility by Santosh Jha (christmas read aloud .txt) 📖

tough times. The reality may be two-faced. Both seeds as well as soils may remain in battle situations with each other. The seed may never accept the dissolution of its ego, pride, ignorance and selfishness. The soil on the other hand may never admit it has lost the magic. Anyway, casualty lists are on both sides and humanity suffers. The result is; there are few great trees around, sad it is.

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Being Our Own Media And Regulator

It is indeed a sad but omnipresent truth of the living experience. The good and right things are very much in minority. Far more depressing is the fact that the minority of goodness and right is usually prevailed over by the majority of bad, wrong and undecided. Moreover, this can be easily understood.

Before that, everyone would argue, who are you to judge what is right and wrong? After all, good and bad are all very subjective choices! May be, but the associated question is, why majority of what people speak are good and right whereas the same is in minority when it comes to their actions? This suggests, there definitely is a consensus on what good or right is and that is why, it is usually a spoken truth.

It is because; most righteousness parameters are instinctive or socially relevant since ages. They however are not the same in action as practicing them is a tedious and long-term virtue and human minds are culturally trained to look only for short-term fruitions.

It is almost perceptible now that in the long history of humankind, all major developments in the world had three things in common. First, most of these developments were very good intentioned and originated out of the long struggle or deep pain of humanity to make the world a better place to live. Be it religion, philosophy, culture, law or science.

Second, it is a real curse that only a small group of people initiated actions over good ideas but they seldom penetrated and reached to the mass levels. Almost all goodness started with a minority voice and needed support from all possible media to reach the masses to ascertain authentication from the majority. The regretting fact is that most goodness in the past got either a bad media or no media. The ‘no media’ was not as perilous as the ‘bad media’.

The sad reality in the long history of civilized nations and civil society is that the media of their times failed to rise up to occasion and chiefly because the leaders of media were themselves very poorly knowledgeable and aware. The result was low or unfocused people participation in support of the goodness. By the term media here, we do not mean the ‘Press’ only. Media means those people and institution in all spheres of life; be it religion, philosophy, culture, law or science, who had the leadership position to influence societal decision-making-mechanism.

The third and important thing was the natural corollary of the second. As the goodness could not assure involvement and participation of the majority, a small group of unscrupulous people very cleverly entered the scene as ‘intermediaries’ and usurped the benefits in connivance with the authorities entrusted with the task of delivery of the goodness. Here too, historically, media failed in its role to preempt and prevent such unwanted usurpation and pilferage. Rather, in many cases, media and its leaders proved hand in glove with the plunder mechanism and enjoyed undue heavens.

It is Important to know the two prerequisites for the success of any goodness that was initiated for general well-being of humanity. Primary requisite is a very aware and proactive media and secondly, a well-oiled regulatory mechanism for fast and steady penetration and reach to the masses as well as the insurance that goodness reached in the right and avowed shape and size.

Nations, which have grown and evolved as cohesive and conscious societies where the social mass itself plays this crucial role of being a proactive media as well as the regulator, they have thrived as human collectivity.

It is to be clearly understood why all this happens. As we will understand that, we all shall develop very compassionate and affectionately objective view and stand over those people who either play villain to goodness or are simply a misguided lot. Only a conscious society can make them fall in line with the majority voice of sanity.

Human ingenuity for pilferage is instinctive; it cannot completely be done away with. This is the expression of human’s survival instinct. It has been said hundreds of years back by a wise man, “nobody can understand and check when a fish drinks water while being in water”.

‘Self’ is an undeniable reality and ‘selfishness’ is also very natural, instinctive and intuitive. It comes out of the genetically designed urge for self-preservation of any living cell. The nobility of human selfishness is however a social and cultural product. This social product is not intuitive but inculcated by right education and objective mind training.

The fear or care for social approval and reprimand decides the intensity of inclination of selfishness to indulge in ingenuity of pilferage. The basic fear is the fear of majority and the only potent check on human ingenuity. However, humanity has always been unfortunate in the sense that goodness never gets majority backing and ingenuity always does get it.

This rule applies to all bad and wrong things of humanity; be it the issue of corruption, religious bigotry, religious fundamentalism, religion-based-frauds, crimes, superstitions, social evils, etc.

All evils of humanity thrive in societies where people are divided and level of mutual trusts is low. In such societies, it is almost impossible to build a majority opinion on any issue of goodness. In such space, fear, insecurity, gross ignorance, poor societal law-enforcement, undecided value-system of society, etc. add more chaos. This gives the unscrupulous people a chance to plant more ingenuity of evil.

We all live in a liberal and open world where individualistic urge for instant self-gratification gets huge media support and others. Society as a collective entity is fast becoming extinct. As there is little fear of a possible societal disapproval of any act, all intuitive ingenuities of individuals get prompt boost up.

We have a situation in almost all countries now. There is a growing anger and distrust towards the governments and other authoritative systems of the country. People think; the governments are not only becoming corrupt but also very inefficient. In all problems, not only in governance issues, people put the onus of blame in government and its agencies. The media is only trigger-happy to ride on the populist sentiments.

No doubt, the government corruption and inefficiency is a big issue but it is also equally true that all blames for all troubles cannot and should not be off loaded on government. There are layers of incidence of troubles and also, layers of their solution. Every layer participates and must participate in all troubles of a nation.

Sadly enough, the primary layers of family and society are not participating actively and efficiently in solution efforts as these institutions are fast becoming less effective and their utility is not accepted by individuals. As a result, all expectations are pinned on governments as this layer is accepted as the only potent and effective mechanism.

There is this lawlessness and anarchy in society, which is almost every nation’s chief trouble. No doubt, good and effective governance, policing and legal structures’ efficiency has a decisive impact on solving the trouble. However, can society and family be aloof from the responsibility? This is happening; families and societies have lost all responsibilities of solution and that is why, the governments are losing credibility.

It has to be accepted; politics is just a super-structure on the social structure. No amount of governance efficacy can effectively check the deviant attitudes, behavior and actions of individuals. The family has to own the primary onus. Society must always be the most potent force in disapproving any deviant tendencies.

Over the years, the families and societies have failed and that is why, almost all deviant behaviors and attitudes are having a free ride. The situation is very critical now as deviant attitudes are getting media focus and even a pat on the back. Moreover, as the society reacts to these at times and blames it on the government, the media is quick to take sides of the populist stupidity and anger.

No society can sustain and thrive if the society and family drops its responsibility as the largest and best media and regulator. Governments and their authoritative forces are very weak mechanism and usually have limited impact of notional regulation. Governments are fast succumbing to populist demands and losing authoritative objectivity.

No doubt, the government systems have to improve a lot but families and societies have to first own the primary responsibility. The governments and its agencies shall automatically rid themselves of corruption and inefficiency as families and societies don the role of the proactive media and regulator.

It has to be accepted as a bitter pill that weak and inefficient government mechanism is in fact a natural expression of an irresponsible and rudderless society. Only a potent and responsible society is an effective check on government corruption.

As we have a responsible and proactive society, this shall automatically lead to a stage where, every individual shall become his or her own media and regulator.

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Accept My Gratitude

Being in absolute reception of love wins all fears; makes us rise above the process of ‘preparedness’ to the ultimate stage of ‘readiness’. In this consciousness, all good and cherished ideals of humanity fall in our lap, they fill our being. Love lands us to ultimate empowerment of forgiveness. I most humbly say, I am in innocent reception of the perpetuity of utility of love amid life’s futility. That is why; I could muster up the courage to talk to you. I am happily sure; you shall forgive your unworthy friend for his stupidities. Thank you so much for being with me and allowing me to share with you. Big thanks for your precious input in my charity. Wish you an empowered life; with the prosperity of the consciousness, which shall make you the most genius problem-solver of the universe, you are born as.

About Author

People say, what conspire to make you what you finally become are always behind the veil of intangibility. Someone called it ‘Intangible-Affectors’. Inquisitiveness was the soil, I was born with and the seeds, these intangible-affectors planted in me made me somewhat analytical. My long stint in media, in different capacities as journalist, as brand professional and strategic planning, conspired too! However, I must say it with all innocence at my behest that the chief conspirators of my making have been the loads of beautiful and multi-dimensional people, who traversed along me, in my life journey so far. The mutuality and innocence of love and compassion always prevailed and magically worked as the catalyst in my learning and most importantly, unlearning from these people. Unconsciously, these amazing people also worked out to be the live theatres of my experiments with my life’s scripts. I, sharing with you all what I have here, is essentially my very modest way to express my gratitude for all of them and you, who affectionately shared my consciousness here. In my stupidities is my innocence of love for all my beautifully worthy conspirators!

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