MAN, THOU ART DIVINE, YET, THOU ART THE NEGLECTED ONE AT THE REMOTE END OF RELIGION

MAN, THOU ART DIVINE, YET, THOU ART THE NEGLECTED ONE AT THE REMOTE END OF RELIGION

Through all the turbulence of Hindu heritage reclamation - no doubt a historical necessity - the tyranny of capital is incessantly increasing. National wealth is increasing and with it the economic disparity between the rich and the poor. The middle-middle classes are, through joblessness, poor payment and increasingly high cost of living, being pushed to becoming affiliates to the poorer fraternity while the rich are adding billions to their coffers through legalised robbery in the name of heartless profit-making. At such a juncture where Indian civilisation must decide on its future course, a question arises : Has the nation forgotten its original spiritual discovery of the divinity of sentient beings? Are these living divinities that are the mass of men and women and the aged and the children to be sacrificed to appease their images in stone, both human and divine? Is it not time to reconsider our spiritual options and start concentrating on the lives of humans who are the truer divinities than all possible sculpted forms? Let the work of spiritual-cultural resurrection go on hand in hand with human development to give development itself a divine-human face.

Written by Sugata Bose