It is character that is most wanting in society today. People are generally engaged in self-serving without realising for a while that self-interest is best served by striving for collective good. 'Myself last' --- this is the principle Swami Vivekananda has laid down before us and this is the principle, therefore, that we should adhere to if we are to be truly spiritual. Humanity is largely barbaric where it holds on to the reverse principle --- 'Myself first'. Thus are wars ceaselessly fought to create as well as attempt to resolve issues. If lasting peace is to be achieved, then unselfishness must be the way ahead. An integrated world-view based on the Vedantic vision of the oneness of existence can solve the problems that beset human society today and will surely be soon recognised as the one civilised course open before humanity for its survival as a species.
On the personal plane, sincerity, truthfulness and purity, the three prime requisites for character-formation, must be the attributes that must be there in large numbers of people if a collective impact for the betterment of the human condition is to be made. Service for self-uplift and not mere work for wage is the watchword. This indecent profit-motivation as the propelling force in work that is the bane of the industrial age must be given up in the higher light of understanding of the divine principle of oneness of all that is. How can I cheat you, how may I profit from you if I know for certain that you and I are one? The sense of separation gone, love will overflow for all and then only will humanity witness the golden transformation of society. We must all strive hard to cultivate character that such a day may soon dawn on us. Till then let us not rest. Let us exert ourselves utmost towards the fruition of such a renascent day.
Jai Sri Ramakrishna! Jai Ma! Jai Swamiji!
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