HONESTY NOT A ---- V

 Honesty not a --- V

But when an issue of ‘acquiring wealth beyond the known means’ springs up, only the individual has to face it prostrating before every higher up from the length and breadth of the country. All the bravery on display all these years vanishes in a flash as the individual can not bank on the collective wisdom since all of them are under a silent surveillance. Their houses and “hideouts” are brought under vigil for unearthing the fortune acquired by hook and crook. Like new widows, they have to stay indoors with no immediate prospect of light or life. One may raise the argument that how many of the corrupt have been booked? The number may be really low. But what meets the eye is not real. No collective intelligence can match Nature’s justice. Nature inflicts punishments for the errant, life long and beyond well into posterity for generations. Always let us keep in mind, we may be smart, but nature is smarter. Law of nature is such that, distribution has to occur. Distribution does not mean dividing the material “possessed”. Rather it would be the share that one has to take in the form ill health, perpetual medication, children struggling in studies and in life with broken marriages, living in AC rooms devoid of natural air, unable to stir out for fear of public gaze after falling from grace. Not a member of the ‘group’ chooses to call on a person under scrutiny. The legal battle drags on for generations until the whole family is dead except the servant maid who stays in the palatial house built for posterity from the wrath of the public. Any uncontrolled desire brings forth uncontrollable misery. Despite these probabilities people prefer to ‘venture’ into all methodologies of acquiring “quick wealth” as if the whole life is provided for this lone endeavour. What is worse, children from such ambience have scant respect for money, as it appears a free-flowing commodity. They fail to recognize the value of labour, but quickly pick up all the nuances of spending. Money carries the value of empowering a person. Therefore the rich believe of enjoying a “power”. Among the children and adolescents the risk is more as they tend to venture unexplored areas based on hearsay. Nature’s correctives may bring in “balancing” the ill-gotten wealth by pledging the children’s future. A person wedded to monetary progression loses sight of even the spouse and children.                                                             

Adolescents unattended to, with a liberal flow of funds are on the edge of a volcano having tried things that the adults do not dare. These are the real dangers from plenty at the wrong stage. It is not my effort to suggest that money can render only bad. My caution is that money should be earned by genuine labour if it were to be accorded its right value. Easy money does not evoke a sense of respect. Besides, money received as gratification always comes with curse. Curse can never be ignored because it is also a product of vibration from a disturbed mind. If it is hard to recognize the truth, please consider as to why at every key stage in life we seek the blessings of elders, the learned and the ripe old. We need to be under the powerful influence of good vibrations. If good vibrations can render good, the bad vibrations can do their part as well. Too often people wrongly rate these values as of no significance. All senses get blunted if we are under any intoxication. Money is a powerful intoxicant in the sense that it can work from outside by a mere thought. How can one be a balanced person so long as [s]he does not consider these influences?  On a materialistic evaluation, honesty may look inadequate and apparently unproductive. But, it renders value to life, based on moral courage and conviction of purpose. In the real analysis the honest lead a life of purpose punctuated by contentment. Nature does reward them in a manner fitting their stature. Stature is what a person achieves by righteousness. Indeed it is a pity that all these ideas need being reiterated to members of our own society though we are the global pioneers in the concept of leading a contended life.

Let God help restoring our balance before Nature rescues the society from disaster.

Prof. K. Raman