Page 351 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 1

PARALLELISM AND INVERTENDO
Today almost all our values are questioned. We are living in a world which is exclusively self centered if not selfish centered. Relationships have lost value, cultural norms have lost meaning, and Tradition has become almost something that is irrelevant to our existence. Mechanistic and material pre occupations have become the only concern. If anyone tries to say something other than that he is likely to face strife if not in the society in which he moves but at least when he compares himself with others or his people.
Even when you are comfortably placed, your people at home are not happy with you. They compare with somebody else. It is no more two square meals a day. It does not mean whether you take meals at all. It does not mean anything at all. Some peculiar oddities have come into our perceptual field and most of us are either attracted by it, if not attracted by it pushed by others into it. We seem to be moving in a stream helplessly and against this backdrop if we talk about certain values of life and human dignity etc. things, it is something that is totally out of the way, usually thought
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