WHEN PARITY IS RESTORED, THEN LIFE BEGINS

Gender equality is an imperative for human progress and must on all counts be striven for despite unjust scriptural injunctions hindering the progress towards its attainment. The basic dignity of a human being is to be restored in this age of truth and light by casting aside this age-old discrimination against women and the lower castes. No religion is greater than the human being and no religion any more ought to reserve the right to rule over him without his consent. Arbitrary assertions and prophetic pronouncements notwithstanding, the time has come to shed age-old inhibitions and overthrow all constraints that lie in the evolutionary path of man. Distinctions are natural and need not be socially driven to bring home the point. That they still persist in today's liberalising world is proof of the vested interests embedded in the exploitative system that has lasted for ages, drawing nourishment from the life-blood of the masses and the womenfolk. Sociological changes are often slow but sure and the liberation of women and the masses throughout the globe is evidence of this fact of life. Social imperatives are now resolving their way unto inevitable fruition and the process set in is irreversible. Equality of the sexes, of the classes and the castes is being spelt out in no uncertain terms and it is but a matter of time before disparities melt like mist before the morning sun. The sooner iniquities disappear, the brighter shines the fate of humankind and the more adorable becomes life on earth. Such a wealth of human resource kept at bay by age-old divisive distinctions have harmed human society immeasurably in the past and, if wisdom prevails now, it may only be expected that humanity will fast recover from past deficiencies of appreciation of human worth and potential to set the balance right at last. Then will the whole of humanity be born into freedom and light, ushering in a golden age of peace, happiness and prosperity for all. Then and then alone will human life be worth living for one and all. Till then it is all a sham, this so-called democracy, equality of opportunity, human rights and freedom. Knowing this to be our present predicament, each one of us must pledge to our own honest selves that we will lend in our labour of love towards fast bringing about such a wonderful freedom for one and all when disparities will cease on all counts and each one will respect the other as the very embodiment of his highest ideal, his own highest Self. May all unholy alliances cease that tend to keep humanity down! May distinctions that debar the growth of man, disparities that thwart the free flow of life in all, iniquities that throttle the fundamental conditions of living disappear before the might of our collective will, our united self-conscious corrective action! Jai Hind! Hail humanity!