FW: Economic development is not development

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Krishna Gopal Misra <kg wrote: "Krishna Gopal Misra" <kg{Spam?} FW: economic development is not developmentThu, 17 Aug 2006 14:35:26 +0530 Respected Dr Abdul Kalam India is a country that houses 16% of the human population at just 2.5% of the land on the planet. Bound by sea on the three sides and Himalaya on the north, this is secured by natural fortress; and midst it has all seasons and all geographic situations. Humans at this place are demonstrating a co-existence of all cultures and tradition. It is not comparable to any place on the earth on the parameters that the nature provided it. Indian humans are a bizarre species on the earth too. They believed in rebirth and ‘karma’ theory. They think that their present life is result of their karma of previous lives, and they should happily survive whatever befell them either the misery or prosperity,

and not react or not be violent to others as a means to save their further lives. A student from France was shocked at when he visited India. He could not believe his eyes that saw in Bhubansewar or Delhi a road shared by pigs, cow, dogs, Toyota cars, laborers, rich people, beggars and police and so on. He was so much

delighted by the fact that he found an answer to why India got its strength and ability to house 16% of the population at 2.5% of land of the planet. This means, people in India are not jealous (sense of comparison) of one another, and never considered death as an end of the life. Had it been in France, people could not imagine waiting for next rebirth and would raise arms quickly to kill one another to take out their share of the world. European justice is thus very different and it has never been a solution of intolerance. This intolerance made people un-accommodative, and population is constantly shrinking. India is another world. It cannot only be seen from spectacles of the western sight. Because of the Indian belief in life after death and karma theory, people are very passive and tolerant, and yet profound in their intellectual maturity. Any idiot can rule the country. Babar, Aurangjeb, Humayoon, Mulayam, Mayawati, Indira Gandhi, Laloo yadav are not credited by their position but it is Indian people who have the capacity of tolerating them. They only abused the country and their laws were never taken seriously. You can find evidence every here that Indians those worship Shiva in stone, trees, sun, earth, mountains have least respect for the government laws. Indians sacrifice themselves and donate their wealth to deprived classes but the same Indians hate to pay any taxes and shy away from authoritarian government.

What can explain this dual standard? Why do Indians hate government, yet tolerate and in the end disobey their laws? Have the government failed to understand them? Indians are strange because they are wholistic. “A whole is greater than sum of the parts.” That means, a whole (living) man is greater than collection of the (dead) body parts. Similarly, a river is living body which belongs to none and yet it benefits all people, animals, birds and has no system of measurements as to how much each of them drank or used it in bathing. By this quality, a river is not a resource but a living persona called Ganga maiya or mother Ganga. Lord Shiva is never short of water but he devised a mass education method a ritual that he must be offered water from rivers. This procedure thus ensured that people protect cleanliness of river and pure water (as it is for worship) should be freely accessible to all without discrimination and without any measurement. When things are free, and none owns to it, it becomes responsibility of all to protect it and

maintain it. This was example of wholistic development. When people made ‘bath rooms’ instead of the rivers, they owned separate bath rooms, and it undermined value of river and its natural water cycles; and as a result water is in short supply and a subject of measurement and distribution by use of economic system (demand supply mathematics). Civilization of bath room owners and civilization of river bathers thus differ in their perspective. Bath room owners are managing parts cut off from the main body, and these so called owners of bath room are economically developed. On the other hand, river bathers are without an idea of money, and would never understand idea of priced water with a

government controlling it. If you read the above concept carefully, it should not be hard to imagine that economic development is not really development. Europe is unfortunate user of economics because its people could not be at peace and survived together, in absence of a model of wholistic life. Europeans do not believe in rebirth, and naturally they will fight for equality and have a high

sense of comparisons and competition. India was already well developed and it should be afraid of economics and divisions due to it. India will be slowly destroyed by economic development. You will remember plight of bath room owners who lost a vision of wholistic living (surviving with rivers) with right of independence and responsibility of

freedom. Development of economics will make every people selfish and divisive. As a result, the accommodativeness of people will greatly reduce. The country at 2.5% land housing 16% of humans at planet cannot be imagined. The population will reduce drastically in next 30 years. 7 principles of family planning i.e., female feticides, AIDS, migration to other countries, life style diseases (diabetes, heart attaches), terrorism, natural calamities and riots shall replace efforts of government. Indian population will be equal to European levels of per sq meter. People will have more number of automobiles than the livestock or human population. There will

be economic development but not (cannot be said as) human development. People will be highly intolerant. Unlike the India of current time, idiot leaders in economically developed India will no longer be tolerated. And when obsolete leaders will fail to their expectations, government then will become intolerant. In such situations, a large country of Indians will be broken

into small small nations of highly selfish mathematically minded humans (full with sense of comparison) like the current Europe or pre-British India. You are a thinker and philosophical person. Can you save the spirit of dying India? Can you help our youth to understand what wholistic living is? Can you speak for dignity of those who do not count things before giving it to others? I listen to your talk on 14th

August and admire you. And I wish you could break shackles of the system of republic and touch hearts of this great nation, and build a political organization and lay a foundation of Indian civilization at this planet. You look old and frail, but you are more young than most. If you stand up and take youth of India in a right direction, and make them believe in their dreams and values, it will be best service as a President of India. If you can start a movement, I and Ganesh Bagaria and others can make it run in perpetuity. Regards K G Misra 735, sector 39 Gurgaon 122003 Mobile: 09312401302 "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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