AT CROSSROADS WE STAND

This post should be read in continuaton with the previous post.

 

 

 

I do not think that the task of bringing about a change in Consciousness is impossible. It will be very very difficult, a truely telling process on our patience,receptivity and deeper understanding of things,and perhaps a lot of personal and social sacrifices on our part.But if the intent is there, the destination shall be reached at some stage.

Perhaps the common man thinks that as an individual he is powerless to do anything which tends to change the existing scheme of things.And we all wait for a leader like M.K.Gandhi or Nelson Mandela to arise and show us the way(in fact we publicly express ourselves to rue the fact there is no True Leader anymore as it used to be).This actually reflects the subconscious guilt of the common man that he fails to participate actively in actions or movements,individual or social,that he actually believes to be necessary for the betterment of situations. When I publicly declare,"I wish we had a leader..",I am actually washing my conscience of a necessary,broader responsibility that my membership of human society has automatically bestowed upon me. It is not an act of superhuman physical strength or superlative quotients of intelligence that is required. What is required is Honest Desire,Commitment and Patience,and an unflinching passion to keep on
Dreaming a better time in future,in the face of the worst of adversities. An average human being has all these attributes,and he uses them on a daily basis in varying degrees to survive and sustain a good-quality life.And it is a degradation and corruption of his moral commitments,that prevents him from using his natural attributes to act for a Better Cause,a Better Tomorrow and a Better Planet,for his own child.

The present stage of evolution of consciousness enwraps man in a selfish blanket of insecurity that man does not want to 'put anything at stake',which an idealogue would define as Sacrifice.It is too heavy a term,too complicated in philosophical ramifications for the average man to dabble with. We forget that all of us are making sacrifices of varying degrees in our daily lives for our own selves and our families.The difference is the degree of accountability,answerability and the responsibility to face and own up the consequences of our actions. It is Responsibility on a bigger scale and Accountability which man tries to run away from. We all display moral cowardice,and we keep on denying it because we do it collectively.

Change in consciousness has to start from here-the basic roots of morality of the individual man. We do not need mass leaders to bring about mass changes.But that's what we keep on doing oh so erroneously. If we look around us to observe the existence of radically different ideologies and the constant clash that goes on, we see A Big Mistake being committee all the time. All communities are thinking about bringing on changes through mass movements under ideologies which leaders must keep alive at any cost and drill them in from time to time.

The process to reform, must start at the individual level.Every man has to take a pause,look unto his own self and realise the fatality of his daily existence. The leader to lead the individual consciousness into an advanced 'orientation' is the individual himself. Man himself has got the power and the ability,but he must believe in his own self first.

Civilisation has reached an important landmark now.And sociologically we can no more afford to create community systems by Trial and Error(That's what we have done through History..).We should have,by now,learnt the sustainibilities and fallibilities of different models of individual morality and its execution in community guidelines. If we haven't learnt,I do not think we have become more 'civilised',in spite of having become more developed.

The facts are striking and outrageous to gulp down,but they are true. And they are lying out there,unattended. If man has gulped down the Jew Holocaust, and abominable genocides in Nagasaki and Hiroshima amongst other things, then I do not see any reason why he cannot gulp down the reality of his sociological blunders,Apologize and move ahead.

I take the first step.I do not wait for others to show me the way. It is just a matter of time that every one shall join me in The Journey-the Journey that I dream about and mentioned about in my very first post here.I know I can do it because I am Man,the Son of Nature,and my Strength is Immense.

So is Yours.