A NOTE TO MY FRIEND, BHASKAR SEN SHARMA

SIMPLE LIVING, HIGH THINKING

When rich people indiscriminately spend money luxurious living, they should remember that the money is not theirs but belongs to the world and ought to be spent only for the welfare of the world. Simple living, high thinking ought to be our philosophy, so impressed my father unto me when I was a child. And it has been a very sound philosophy of life for me ever since, although, I must confess that I have not always been faithful to it in terms of purchasing books has been concerned. But when I see the gross exhibition of wealth in the celebration of marriages and the like, I cannot but despair for the despoiled masses who daily sink into lives of destitution, thus, when greater commitment to larger welfare could have rescued billions from the depredation of the billionaires. I take your leave now and leave you to your selves to reflect and reform your lifestyles, aspirations and attitudes.

Written by Sugata Bose

Bhaskar Sen Sharma : If only good counsel dawned on such people who lavish their riches and wealth indiscriminately.

A NOTE TO MY FRIEND, BHASKAR SEN SHARMA

Spiritual preceptors of these rich people must bring home these ideas of discriminate spending into the minds of their prosperous proteges. But the preceptors are compromised themselves and have not the teeth to bite into these ills of society. They are funded in their fake spiritual propositions by their fancied clients who form their following and, accordingly, preceptor and pupil combine to conspire against the concerns of the common man that are bread, shelter, education and healthcare. So, you see, the corruption continues and for ages yet will, perhaps, do so till man arrives in his collective consciousness to the level of evolution when he, to quote Marx, no more hesitates to 'revolve around himself'. That day is as yet distant if at all it will ever fructify.

Written by Sugata Bose

Photo : Bhaskar Sen Sharma (extreme right) with President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam