ACT TO TRANSFORM THE HUMAN CONDITION

ACT TO TRANSFORM THE HUMAN CONDITION

Inaction is sin, detached action virtue, the gateway to freedom. Action stimulates the soul ; detached action purifies the mind-stuff and loosens the bonds that bar the flow of the river into the sea. The scales drop and the vision is clean, unhindered, unimpaired, transparent. It is an unbroken joy.

But mere individual flight to freedom cannot be the sole objective of action. There is a collective element to it and it is transformation of the human condition. Civilisation stands on action and where it has failed, it has been on account of human apathy towards the prevailing evils often. Suffering may be natural but to overcome it or at least to minimise it lies within human hands, and it is here where concerted collective action comes into play.

Where would the monuments to immortality be were it not for human labour that bled to build them? Men marvel at the Pyramids, at the Taj Mahal, at the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, but how few remember the buried bones beneath each such citadel of civilisation? Yes, they have silently died to be resurrected in their collective endeavour of genius that lives on defying the death-sentence of Time. But who ever thinks of them, reflects on their lost hour of artistic glory made gory with their bodies' blood?

Unto those fallen heroes then lies our active commitment. These are our monuments of the future. Man, the eternal marvel, the most spectacular production of this natural drama, the rolling river of creative evolution -- man must be our future monument, the masterpiece of our collective involved genius. Let us set to work to crafting out a happier civilisation where man breathes free and becomes a poem unto himself.

Written by

Sugata Bose

47Nilanjana Chakraborty, Susanta Mullick and 45 others

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