Doing Business and Managing Wealth-This Is How It Should Be Done !

The other day I happened to read online the first chapter of the Book written by the famous British business magnate, Sir Richard Branson. I also liked the way he chose to title the book as: Screw Business As Usual. I have not seen this man, but I have read about him and the way he made up his business empire, the Virgin Group. It is indeed a commendable thing that a boy with a learning difficulty (known now as dyslexia) overcame that in just about four decades to establish a multinational business empire from scratches by sheer dedication and sincerety to his work.

His book is in reality a kind of his autobiography and he has attempted it in the most down to earth manner which is very touching. In this book, he tells the world how to do business in the most ethical and honest manner and still remain profitable and sustainable. He repeatedly stresses the importance of doing things better, not for the sole purpose of making profits but for the overall benefit of all, the customers, the employees, the shareholders, the suppliers and most importantly to mother earth. And through his many examples, he highlights the fact that doing business this way is not difficult at all or rather it's easy and rewarding in the long run. Another important point he makes is the relevance of empowering the people in decision making and having a business organization that is not top heavy.

Richard Branson tells his contemporaries his idea of doing philanthropy and charity in the non-conventional manner wherein the synergies of the people are channelized to achieve overall good in the society. He explains touchingly how his Virgin Unite was founded for this purpose. On the overall, this modern day business man passionately believes and works for making his business as a force for good.

His book Screw Business As Usual is not yet available in my country-India- to buy. I think I would buy it and read the rest of his passionate business story once I get it. It is another matter that he has pledged all the royalty inocome from this book to charity. I feel that my country men, especially those inclined to do business and those already doing business should think of reading this book. Because, there are many in this country who think that business cannot be done ethically. Business in India, unfortunately, is linked to corruption and the general perception about business men is not good.

The preface and the first chapter of Screw Business As Usual is available free in this blog site of Richard Branson. [You may use the link in this site to read it ]

It is indeed a good thing that the number of business men who want to convert their wealth and money and their business acumen as tools for doing good for the society and the people, are increasing. It is also a good thing that many modern day politicians and governmental authorities are giving all encouragements to entrepreneurs to generate and manage wealth in a sustainable manner, ensuring overall good to the society or the country. There are also innumerable living examples where we see businessess adopting unethical practices perish, however big they might have been.

In this context, I am tempted to tell you what Jesus Christ had advised about the management of material wealth to a wealthy man of his times. This is from my favourite book, the Urantia Book, as, such details are not available other sources such as the Bible.

Jesus had explained ten different forms of material wealth and the best manner in which one should deal or manage it. The essence is managing wealth for the good of all, just as Richard Branson is perhaps doing in our times. [Incidentally, I do not know whether Mr Branson had read the Urantia Book or not!]

I give below those ten cases of managing wealth of various kinds as explained by Jesus Christ as given in the Urantia Book:

1. Managing Inherited Wealth — riches derived from parents and other ancestors.

As steward of inherited wealth you should consider its sources. You are under moral obligation to represent the past generation in the honest transmittal of legitimate wealth to succeeding generations after subtracting a fair toll for the benefit of the present generation. But you are not obligated to perpetuate any dishonesty or injustice involved in the unfair accumulation of wealth by your ancestors. Any portion of your inherited wealth which turns out to have been derived through fraud or unfairness, you may disburse in accordance with your convictions of justice, generosity, and restitution. The remainder of your legitimate inherited wealth you may use in equity and transmit in security as the trustee of one generation for another. Wise discrimination and sound judgment should dictate your decisions regarding the bequest of riches to your successors.

2. Discovered wealth — riches derived from the uncultivated resources of mother earth.

Everyone who enjoys wealth as a result of discovery should remember that one individual can live on earth but a short season and should, therefore, make adequate provision for the sharing of these discoveries in helpful ways by the largest possible number of his fellow men. While the discoverer should not be denied all reward for efforts of discovery, neither should he selfishly presume to lay claim to all of the advantages and blessings to be derived from the uncovering of nature’s hoarded resources.

3. Trade wealth — riches obtained as a fair profit in the exchange and barter of material goods.

As long as men choose to conduct the world’s business by trade and barter, they are entitled to a fair and legitimate profit. Every tradesman deserves wages for his services; the merchant is entitled to his hire. The fairness of trade and the honest treatment accorded one’s fellows in the organized business of the world create many different sorts of profit wealth, and all these sources of wealth must be judged by the highest principles of justice, honesty, and fairness. The honest trader should not hesitate to take the same profit which he would gladly accord his fellow trader in a similar transaction. While this sort of  wealth is not identical with individually earned income when business dealings are conducted on a large scale, at the same time, such honestly accumulated wealth endows its possessor with a considerable equity as regards a voice in its subsequent distribution.

4. Unfair wealth — riches derived from the unfair exploitation or the enslavement of one’s fellows.

No mortal who knows God and seeks to do the divine will can stoop to engage in the oppressions of wealth. No noble man will strive to accumulate riches and amass wealth-power by the enslavement or unfair exploitation of his brothers in the flesh. Riches are a moral curse and a spiritual stigma when they are derived from the sweat of oppressed mortal man. All such wealth should be restored to those who have thus been robbed or to their children and their children’s children. An enduring civilization cannot be built upon the practice of defrauding the laborer of his hire.

5. Interest wealth — income derived from the fair and just earning possibilities of invested capital.

Honest wealth is entitled to interest. As long as men borrow and lend, that which is fair interest may be collected provided the capital lent was legitimate wealth. First cleanse your capital before you lay claim to the interest. Do not become so small and grasping that you would stoop to the practice of usury. Never permit yourself to be so selfish as to employ money-power to gain unfair advantage over your struggling fellows. Yield not to the temptation to take usury from your brother in financial distress.


6. Genius wealth — riches accruing from the rewards of the creative and inventive endowments of the human mind.

 

If you chance to secure wealth by flights of genius, if your riches are derived from the rewards of inventive endowment, do not lay claim to an unfair portion of such rewards. The genius owes something to both his ancestors and his progeny; likewise is he under obligation to the race, nation, and circumstances of his inventive discoveries; he should also remember that it was as man among men that he labored and wrought out his inventions. It would be equally unjust to deprive the genius of all his increment of wealth. And it will ever be impossible for men to establish rules and regulations applicable equally to all these problems of the equitable distribution of wealth. You must first recognize man as your brother, and if you honestly desire to do by him as you would have him do by you, the commonplace dictates of justice, honesty, and fairness will guide you in the just and impartial settlement of every recurring problem of economic rewards and social justice.

7. Accidental wealth— riches derived from the generosity of one’s fellows or taking origin in the circumstances of life.

 

Except for the just and legitimate fees earned in administration, no man should lay personal claim to that wealth which time and chance may cause to fall into his hands. Accidental riches should be regarded somewhat in the light of a trust to be expended for the benefit of one’s social or economic group. The possessors of such wealth should be accorded the major voice in the determination of the wise and effective distribution of such unearned resources. Civilized man will not always look upon all that he controls as his personal and private possession.

8. Stolen wealth — riches secured by unfairness, dishonesty, theft, or fraud.

If any portion of your fortune has been knowingly derived from fraud; if aught of your wealth has been accumulated by dishonest practices or unfair methods; if your riches are the product of unjust dealings with your fellows, make haste to restore all these ill-gotten gains to the rightful owners. Make full amends and thus cleanse your fortune of all dishonest riches.

9. Trust funds — wealth lodged in your hands by your fellows for some specific use, now or in the future.

The trusteeship of the wealth of one person for the benefit of others is a solemn and sacred responsibility. Do not hazard or jeopardize such a trust. Take for yourself of any trust only that which all honest men would allow.

10. Earned wealth — riches derived directly from your own personal labor, the fair and just reward of your own daily efforts of mind and body.

 

That part of your fortune which represents the earnings of your own mental and physical efforts — if your work has been done in fairness and equity — is truly your own. No man can gainsay your right to hold and use such wealth as you may see fit provided your exercise of this right does not work harm upon your fellows.”

My dear reader, I hope you could appreciate the essence of the above. Managing wealth most appropriately for the good of all in our planet is a great responsibility . We need to encourage and honour those who do it responsibly in the manner that God wants them to do it.

Material prosperity by an individual might tarnish his prospects for spiritual growth because of the danger of that person fully pre-occupied with material pursuits and greed for self aggrandizements.

However, it is also important to realize that material prosperity is a necessary thing for civilization to prosper to greater hights where individuals get the opportunity to pursue intellectual and spiritual knowledge and mind capacities. 

The Urantia Book stresses the need for leisure just as it stresses the importance of work. Sincere work, more sincere work and more sincere work and that is very important. 

Materialism and spiritualism have to go hand in hand. A hungry and physically tired person cannot possibly have a mind suited for spiritual advancements in a material world.

And no human being should be deprived of his legitimate share of a decent material living. And that is to be ensured not just for this generation, but for the generations ahead.

And that is a great responsibility. And whoever works to achieve that needs to be admired !

Let me conclude this with another quote from the Urantia Book :

High civilizations are born of the sagacious correlation of material wealth, intellectual greatness, moral worth, social cleverness, and cosmic insight.


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The Story of the Young Woman Who Desired to Marry Jesus !

The Bible gospels do not give much information about the childhood and adolescent years of Jesus Christ. However, the Apocrypha books contain some information, most of which seem to be imaginary tales by their authors. [Go to read Bible and Apocrypha here !]

However, neither the Bible nor the Apocrypha support the idea that Jesus ever had a wife or even a girl friend, though some of the modern fiction writers and speculators have made it a sensational speculation. The Da Vinci Code is an example where its author Dan Brown depicts Mary Magdalene as the wife of Jesus! In the recent years, some researchers have even found some ancient papyrus pieces which they claim as giving proof for the speculation made by Dan Brown.

But my favorite revelatory book, the Urantia Book, now gives the truthful and detailed history of Jesus Christ in the most elaborate manner. Even though the origin of the Urantia Book is a speculative mystery for many, the contents of the book never look like speculation even to the most hard core critic.

The Urantia Book's non-human authors assert that Jesus Christ was the human incarnation of the Divine Son of God who is the Creator and Sovereign Ruler of a great expanse of space containing a bit over 3.8 million worlds peopled with intelligent beings which include material beings like humans and non-material beings of various orders and kinds.

According to the Urantia Book, Jesus lived like a perfect man, on earth. He was the Divine Creator of his domain and according to the mandate of his Divine Father, he was required to experience the lives of the seven major life forms that were created under his command in his domain. That was required for him to get elevated to the position of the Sovereign Ruler of the domain that he created. Because the ruler should have the fair idea of the lives of his subjects !

The book says that the Creator becoming a lowly creature is in itself a divine mystery. Human forms are the lowest of his intelligent creations and his human incarnation on earth was his last life bestowal. Thus this Divine Son of God took birth on earth as a helpless human child as Jesus of Nazareth, some 2000 years ago, to experience the human life while also helping his fellow humans to know more about his Divine Father in the most appropriate manner than what they had known earlier through other means!

But according to the divine mandate, Jesus was not supposed to marry and have earthly children. He was also required not to leave anything personally attributable to his person, such as his writings. That was because of the immature human tendency to deviate from core values and go after adorable fascinations which the divine wisdom did not wish to happen.

But Jesus as a young man faced situations that was normal to any human being in similar circumstances.

Below are the passages directly quoted from the Urantia Book in the words of its non-human authors, depicting a situation in which an young lady, named Rebecca, falling in love with Jesus and how Jesus faced that situation according to his Divine mandate:

Although Jesus was poor, his social standing in Nazareth was in no way impaired. He was one of the foremost young men of the city and very highly regarded by most of the young women. Since Jesus was such a splendid specimen of robust and intellectual manhood, and considering his reputation as a spiritual leader, it was not strange that Rebecca, the eldest daughter of Ezra, a wealthy merchant and trader of Nazareth, should discover that she was slowly falling in love with this son of Joseph.

She first confided her affection to Miriam, Jesus’ sister, and Miriam in turn talked all this over with her mother. Mary was intensely aroused. Was she about to lose her son, now become the indispensable head of the family? Would troubles never cease? What next could happen? And then she paused to contemplate what effect marriage would have upon Jesus’ future career; not often, but at least sometimes, did she recall the fact that Jesus was a “child of promise.”

After she and Miriam had talked this matter over, they decided to make an effort to stop it before Jesus learned about it, by going direct to Rebecca, laying the whole story before her, and honestly telling her about their belief that Jesus was a son of destiny; that he was to become a great religious leader, perhaps the Messiah.

Rebecca listened intently; she was thrilled with the recital and more than ever determined to cast her lot with this man of her choice and to share his career of leadership. She argued (to herself) that such a man would all the more need a faithful and efficient wife. She interpreted Mary’s efforts to dissuade her as a natural reaction to the dread of losing the head and sole support of her family; but knowing that her father approved of her attraction for the carpenter’s son, she rightly reckoned that he would gladly supply the family with sufficient income fully to compensate for the loss of Jesus’ earnings.

When her father agreed to such a plan, Rebecca had further conferences with Mary and Miriam, and when she failed to win their support, she made bold to go directly to Jesus. This she did with the co-operation of her father, who invited Jesus to their home for the celebration of Rebecca’s seventeenth birthday.

Jesus listened attentively and sympathetically to the recital of these things, first by the father, then by Rebecca herself. He made kindly reply to the effect that no amount of money could take the place of his obligation personally to rear his father’s family, to “fulfill the most sacred of all human trusts—loyalty to one’s own flesh and blood.” Rebecca’s father was deeply touched by Jesus’ words of family devotion and retired from the conference.

His only remark to Mary, his wife (Rebecca's mother), was:

“We can’t have him for a son; he is too noble for us.”

Then began that eventful talk with Rebecca. Thus far in his life, Jesus had made little distinction in his association with boys and girls, with young men and young women. His mind had been altogether too much occupied with the pressing problems of practical earthly affairs and the intriguing contemplation of his eventual career “about his Father’s business” ever to have given serious consideration to the consummation of personal love in human marriage. But now he was face to face with another of those problems which every average human being must confront and decide. Indeed was he “tested in all points like as you (humans) are.”

After listening attentively, he sincerely thanked Rebecca for her expressed admiration, adding:

“it shall cheer and comfort me all the days of my life.”

He (Jesus) explained that he was not free to enter into relations with any woman other than those of simple brotherly regard and pure friendship. He made it clear that his first and paramount duty was the rearing of his father’s family, that he could not consider marriage until that was accomplished; and then he added:

“If I am a son of destiny, I must not assume obligations of lifelong duration until such a time as my destiny shall be made manifest.”

Rebecca was heartbroken. She refused to be comforted and importuned her father to leave Nazareth until he finally consented to move to Sepphoris. In after years, to the many men who sought her hand in marriage, Rebecca had but one answer. She lived for only one purposeï—to await the hour when this, to her, the greatest man who ever lived would begin his career as a teacher of living truth.

And she followed him devotedly through his eventful years of public labor, being present (unobserved by Jesus) that day when he rode triumphantly into Jerusalem; and she stood “among the other women” by the side of Mary on that fateful and tragic afternoon when the Son of Man hung upon the cross, to her, as well as to countless worlds on high, “the one altogether lovely and the greatest among ten thousand.”

Since the name of Mary Magdalene appears in the Bible and in other writings connected with Jesus, it would be interesting to know what the Urantia Book's non-human authors tell about her. Yes, there are some remarkable information about this woman in the Urantia Book.

She was one of the twelve women disciples or apostles that Jesus selected for propagating his good news about the Kingdom of God among the people of earth.

I will cover that story from the my favorite book in another blog.

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മണിയടിയില്‍ സായൂജ്യം നേടുന്നതും സോപ്പിട്ട് കാലു വാരുന്നതും നിര്‍ത്താന്‍ കാലമായില്ലേ ?

ഇന്ത്യയുടെ ജനാധിപത്യ വ്യവസ്ഥിതിയ്ക്ക് തുരങ്കം വയ്ക്കുന്ന ഒന്നാണ് കാലുവാരി കാലുപിടിയന്മാരുടെ നാണം കെട്ട കളികള്‍.

കാലു പിടിച്ചും കാലു വാരിയും അധികാര കസേരകളില്‍ എത്താന്‍ വെമ്പി നില്‍ക്കുന്ന ധാരാളം ആളുകള്‍ അവരുടെ ഇത്തരം പ്രയോഗ മുറകള്‍ പയറ്റാന്‍ പറ്റിയ വേദിയായി ജനാധിപത്യ രാഷ്ട്രീയത്തെ ഉപയോഗിച്ചു പോരുന്നതു പതിവായതു കാരണം അഭിമാനമുള്ള ആര്‍ക്കും ഇന്ത്യന്‍ ജനാധിപത്യ വ്യവസ്ഥിതിയില്‍ ലാഭേച്ഛയില്ലാത്ത പൊതു പ്രവര്‍ത്തനത്തിന് മുമ്പോട്ട് ഇറങ്ങാന്‍ കഴിയുന്നില്ല എന്നത് ഈ രാജ്യത്തിന്‍റെ ദുരവസ്ഥ ആയിക്കഴിഞ്ഞിരിക്കുന്നു.

കാര്യം കാണാന്‍ കഴുതക്കാലും പിടിക്കണം എന്ന പഴയ പഴഞ്ചൊല്ല് വേദവാക്യമായി എടുത്തിരിക്കുന്ന ഇന്ത്യക്കാര്‍ രാഷ്ട്രീയത്തില്‍ മാത്രമല്ല ഇന്ത്യയിലെ എല്ലാ വിധ മേഖലകളിലും തങ്ങളുടെ ഈ വേദോപദേശ തത്വം അതിന്റെ പ്രായോഗിക തലങ്ങളില്‍ ദിനം പ്രതി പയറ്റി പ്രയോജനപ്പെടുത്തി നടക്കുന്നതു കാണുമ്പോള്‍ സാക്ഷാല്‍ കഴുതകള്‍ക്കു പോലും തങ്ങളുടെ വര്‍ഗത്തിനെ പറ്റി അഭിമാനവും അഹങ്കാരവും കൂടാന്‍ ഇടയാകുന്നു. 

അത് മൂലം കാലു പിടിയന്‍ പിന്നെ കാലു വാരുമെന്ന സത്യം കഴുതകള്‍ മറന്നു പോകുന്നു. കാലു വാരി കഴുതയെ കുഴിയില്‍ മൂടുന്ന കാലു വാരി പിന്നെ കഴുതയുടെ കസേരയില്‍ ഞെളിഞ്ഞു ഇരിക്കുന്നു. അധികം താമസിയാതെ പഴയ കഴുതയുടെ പ്രേതം ആവാഹിക്കുന്ന ഒരു പുതിയ കഴുത പുതിയ കാലു പിടിത്തക്കാരെ നോക്കിയിരുപ്പായി. 

കഴുതക്കാലു പിടിത്തവും തുടര്‍ന്നുള്ള കാലുവാരലും കുഴിയില്‍ വീഴ്ത്തലുമൊക്കെ അങ്ങനെ മുറ പോലെ നടന്നു കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നു.

ഇതിനപ്പുറത്തൊരു ജീവിതമില്ല എന്ന മട്ടിലായി ഇന്ത്യയിലെ കാര്യങ്ങള്‍.

കഴുതകളുടെ കാലു പിടിക്കാന്‍ ആദ്യം ചെയ്യുന്നത്  സുഖിപ്പിച്ചുള്ള വാക് പ്രയോഗമാണ്. അത് കഴിഞ്ഞു കോഴ പ്രയോഗം. പിന്നെയും പല പ്രയോഗങ്ങള്‍ നടന്നെന്നിരിക്കും.

പ്രയോഗങ്ങളില്‍ മയങ്ങിയ കഴുത അങ്ങനെ സുഖിച്ചു മദിച്ചിരിക്കുമ്പോള്‍ വാരല്‍ പ്രയോഗം നടക്കും. കഴുത കുഴിയില്‍ വീണിരിക്കും. ഇതുവരെ സുഖിപ്പിച്ചിരുന്ന കാലുപിടിയന്‍ തന്‍റെ ലാവണത്തില്‍ കയറി പറ്റിയാതാവും കുഴിയില്‍ നിന്നും എഴുന്നേല്‍ക്കാന്‍ കഴിഞ്ഞാല്‍ പിന്നെ കഴുത കാണുക.

കുഴിയില്‍ വീണാലും വേണ്ടില്ല കാലു പിടിത്തത്തിന്‍റെ സുഖം അനുഭവിക്കാന്‍ വെമ്പല്‍ കൊള്ളുന്ന കഴുതകള്‍ കൂടി വരുന്നു എന്നാണു പുതിയ കണക്കുകള്‍ കാണിക്കുന്നത്.

കാലു പിടിത്തം സാമൂഹ്യ ജീവിതത്തിന്‍റെ ഒരു പ്രധാന വിഷയം ആയതിനാല്‍ ഇപ്പോള്‍ ഈ കലാ പരിപാടിയില്‍ പ്രാവീണ്യം ഇല്ലാത്തവര്‍ ജീവിതത്തില്‍ പരാജയപ്പെട്ടവര്‍ എന്നാണു ഇപ്പോള്‍ പൊതുജന വിവക്ഷ.

കാലു പിടിച്ചു കാലു വാരി കസേരകളില്‍ കയറി തങ്ങളുടെ ഊഴം കാത്തു ഞെളിഞ്ഞിരിക്കുന്ന കഴുതകളെ മാത്രമേ പൊതുജനം കാണുന്നുള്ളൂ. കുഴിയില്‍ വീണവരെ ആരും കാണുന്നില്ലല്ലോ!

കാലു പിടിത്തത്തിനു പൊതുജനം പൊതുവേ മണിയടി എന്നും കിലുക്കല്‍ എന്നും  പറയാറുണ്ട്‌. ചിലര്‍ സോപ്പിടീല്‍ എന്നും പറയും. ഹിന്ദി മേഖലക്കാര്‍ സാധാരണ ചംചാഗിരി എന്നാണു പറയാറ്. ഇത് ലോകമെമ്പാടുമുള്ള ഒരു പ്രതിഭാസമാകുന്നു. എന്നാല്‍ ഈ നൂറ്റാണ്ടില്‍ ഇന്ത്യക്കാര്‍ മറ്റുള്ളവരെ ഇതില്‍ കടത്തി വെട്ടിയിരിക്കയാണ് എന്ന് വേണമെങ്കില്‍ പറയാം. ഇംഗ്ലീഷില്‍ സൈക്കൊഫന്‍സി എന്നാണ് മണിയടിയുടെ ഓമനപ്പേര്.

അധികാര കസേരയ്ക്ക് ചുറ്റും നിന്ന് പതിവായി മണിയടിച്ചു നില്‍ക്കുന്ന കൂട്ടത്തെ കോട്ടറി എന്നാണു വിളിക്കാറ്. അധികാര കസേരയില്‍ ഇരിക്കുന്ന ദേഹത്തെ പ്രത്യക്ഷമായി കുഴിയില്‍ ഇറക്കാതെ തങ്ങളുടെ കാര്യ സാധ്യം നടത്താന്‍ കോട്ടറി കൂട്ടത്തിനു പ്രത്യേക കഴിവാണ്.

കുഴിയില്‍ വീണാലും വേണ്ടില്ല, കോട്ടറി കൂട്ടത്തിന്‍റെ സോപ്പിടീലിന്‍റെ സുഖം വേണ്ടെന്നു വയ്ക്കാന്‍ പല അധികാര സ്ഥാനികളും തയ്യാറല്ല.

പ്രായത്തിലും അധികാരത്തിലും ഒക്കെ കുറെ സീനിയര്‍ ആയവരെ ബഹുമാനിക്കുന്നത് പക്ഷെ മണിയടി ആയി കരുതാന്‍ പറ്റില്ല. ബഹുമാനം നായ്ക്കളുടെ രീതിയില്‍ ആവുമ്പോള്‍ കാര്യം മാറും.

താഴെക്കിടക്കാരും പട്ടികളും ഒരേ വര്‍ഗം എന്ന് കാണുന്ന മേലാളന്മാര്‍ ധാരാളമുള്ള ദേശമാണ് ഇന്ത്യ. ഇന്ത്യയില്‍ ഇങ്ങനെ ഒരു സ്ഥിതി വിശേഷം സംജാതമായത് അത് മൂലമാകണം.

പഴയ കാല അടിമത്തത്തിന്‍റെ കൊഴിയാത്ത തൊങ്ങല്‍ ആയി ഇതിനെ കാണുന്ന പണ്ഡിതരും കുറവല്ല.

ഏതായാലും ശരി, മണിയടി വീരന്മാരും അതില്‍ സുഖിച്ചു സ്ഥലകാല ബോധം നശിച്ചു തന്നെത്തന്നെയും മറ്റുള്ളവരെയും ഒരു പോലെ കുഴിയില്‍ വീഴ്ത്തുന്ന മേലാളന്മാരും ഇക്കാലത്ത് അത്ര നല്ല കാര്യമല്ല.

മറ്റു രാജ്യങ്ങള്‍ അതിവേഗം പല കാര്യങ്ങളിലും ഔന്നത്യത്തിലേക്ക് കുതിച്ചുയരുമ്പോള്‍ നമ്മുടെ ഇത്തരം അടിമത്ത മനോഭാവങ്ങള്‍ ഇപ്പോഴും വച്ചുപുലര്‍ത്തുന്നത് നാണം കെട്ട ഒരു കാര്യമാണ്. പുരാതന ഭാരത സംസ്കാരത്തെ പറ്റി ഊറ്റം കൊള്ളുന്നവര്‍ ഇതാണോ ആ സംസ്കാരം എന്ന് ആലോചിക്കുന്നതു നന്നായിരിക്കും.

സോപ്പിടീലില്‍ വിവരമുള്ളവര്‍ മയങ്ങാറില്ല. എന്നാല്‍ സോപ്പിട്ടും കാലുപിടിച്ചും അധികാരത്തില്‍ കയറിയവരുടെ സ്ഥിതി അതല്ല. സോപ്പിടാത്തവരെ അവര്‍ക്ക് ഇഷ്ടമാകില്ല. വിവരമുള്ളവര്‍ സോപ്പിടത്തുമില്ല. അത് ചെയ്യാന്‍ വിവര ദോഷികള്‍ക്ക് മാത്രമേ കഴിയൂ. അപ്പോള്‍ പറ്റുന്ന പ്രശ്നം എന്താണെന്നു വച്ചാല്‍ വിവരമുള്ളവര്‍ സമൂഹത്തിനു നന്‍മ ചെയ്യാനുള്ള അവസരങ്ങളില്‍ നിന്നും മാറ്റി നിര്‍ത്തപ്പെടുകയാണ്.

സമൂഹത്തിലെ വ്യവസ്ഥിതി മുഴുവന്‍ വിവരദോഷികളെ കൊണ്ട് നിറയുന്ന ഒരു സ്ഥിതി വിശേഷം സംജാതമാകുന്നു, ഇത് മൂലം. ഇങ്ങനെ അധപതിച്ച ഒരു വ്യവസ്ഥിതിയില്‍ നല്ല കാര്യങ്ങള്‍ നടക്കണമെന്ന് മറ്റുള്ളവര്‍ക്ക് സ്വപ്നം കാണാനേ കഴിയൂ. നടക്കില്ല.

അപ്പോള്‍ കോഴയും അഴിമതിയും താന്‍പോരിമയും സ്വജന പക്ഷവാദവും ഒക്കെ നിറഞ്ഞ ഒരു സമൂഹം ഉരുത്തിരിയും.

ഇത് പക്ഷെ ആര്‍ക്കും ഗുണം ചെയ്യില്ല. താല്‍ക്കാലിക ഗുണ ഭോക്താക്കള്‍ അവിടവിടെ ഞെളിഞ്ഞു നടക്കുമെങ്കിലും ആത്യന്തികമായി അവരും കുഴിയില്‍ മൂടപ്പെടും. ചരിത്രം അതാണു കാണിക്കുന്നത്.

താല്‍ക്കാലിക സുഖ സായൂജ്യം നേടി മയങ്ങി ഇരിക്കുന്നവര്‍ ഇത് മനസ്സിലാക്കിയാല്‍ അവരുടെ പിന്‍തലമുറ എങ്കിലും രക്ഷ പെടും. തങ്ങടെ മക്കളെയും കൊച്ചു മക്കളെയും ഈ നാട്ടില്‍ നിന്നും കയറ്റി വിട്ടു രക്ഷ പെടുത്താന്‍ അവരില്‍ ചിലര്‍ ‍ ഇപ്പോള്‍ പ്രത്യേകം ശ്രദ്ധ കാണിക്കുന്നുണ്ടല്ലോ ! അതിനര്‍ത്ഥം അവര്‍ക്ക് തന്നെ ഈ നാട്ടിലെ വ്യവസ്ഥിതിയില്‍ വിശ്വാസം ഇല്ലാതായി എന്നല്ലേ ?

എന്നാല്‍ അത് ഒരു ശ്വാശ്വത പരിഹാരമാണോ?

മറു നാടുകളില്‍ ഈ ഇന്ത്യന്‍ വംശജര്‍ പില്‍ക്കാലങ്ങളില്‍ വെറും പിന്നോക്ക വര്‍ഗം ആയി പോകില്ലേ ? സ്വന്തം കാര്യം സിന്ദാബാദ്‌ എന്ന് കരുതുന്നവര്‍ക്ക് ഇത് വലിയ പ്രശ്നമാകില്ല എന്നറിയാം. ഇന്ത്യന്‍ വംശം ആഗോളവല്‍ക്കരിക്കാന്‍ ഇതു തന്നെ നല്ല മാര്‍ഗമെന്നും വിവരദോഷികള്‍ പറയാറുണ്ട്‌ എന്നത് വേറെ കാര്യം.

സകല വിധ ഐശ്വര്യങ്ങളും കനിഞ്ഞു നല്‍കപ്പെട്ട ഒരു ദേശമായ ഭാരതത്തിന്‍റെ സകല നന്മകളും മുടിക്കുന്ന ചില മാനസിക വൈകല്യങ്ങള്‍ ഉള്ള ഭാരതീയര്‍ അങ്ങനെയൊക്കെ ചെയ്തു കൂട്ടുമ്പോള്‍ വെറും നോക്ക് കുത്തികളോ കാഴ്ച്ചക്കാരോ ആയി വിഷമിച്ചു നില്‍ക്കേണ്ട കാര്യം വിവരമുള്ള ഭാരതീയര്‍ക്ക് ഉണ്ടോ ?

തെറ്റുകള്‍ കണ്ടാല്‍ പ്രതികരിക്കുന്നത് തെറ്റല്ല എന്ന് വിവരമുള്ളവര്‍ മനസ്സിലാക്കണം. എന്നാല്‍ പ്രതികരണം വിവര ദോഷികളെ പോലെയും ആകരുത്. വിവരദോഷികള്‍ എന്ത് വേണേ ചെയ്യട്ടെ എന്ന് കരുതി വെറുതെ ഇരുന്നാല്‍ ഭാവിയില്‍ ഈ ഇത്തിള്‍കണ്ണികള്‍ എല്ലായിടത്തും വേരിറക്കി കഴിഞ്ഞിരിക്കും. അന്ന് എല്ലാം ചുട്ടു ചാമ്പല്‍ ആക്കേണ്ട സ്ഥിതി വരും. അത് വരാതെ സൂക്ഷിച്ചാല്‍ എല്ലാവര്ക്കും ഗുണമാകും.

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