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Inward Revolution and Creativity : A way out of moral crisis
Dr. Rajshree Sheth
Asst. Prof. of English Madhav College, Ujjain
ABSTRACT
From the perspective of moral values the current kaliyugʻis a cursed time. Dooms-day is approaching as the moral degeneration is moving ahead at a furious pace. This is an apparently depressing scenario but it also focuses clearly on the challenges facing society today. What is really worrisome is our inability to cope with Ethical degradation. The times are such that we can't afford to sit still. This seminar is a timely reminder for reappraisal and structuring our pedagogy so as to enable us to produce results.
There is a need for all teachers to start flexing their intellectual and pedagogical muscles. Unless academicians create circumstances which will help students develope a positive self image of themselves and confidence in their work and output. They will have failed to attain their objectives. There is also a need to sensitize our students to the ways of their conduct. Instead of following the prescriptive approach and issuing a set of instructions it would probably be more realistic to focus on what it is humanly possible to do in order to produce good human beings.
The present paper attempts to look into the inward mechanism which facilitates our insight into the process of degradation and to seek ways out of it. There is an urgency of an inward revolution which alone can bring about a radical transformation of the outer, of society. Any reform which is accomplished without this inward revolution becomes static. It is a fact that society is always crystallised and absorbing individuals and creative revolution can only be in individual relationship, that, is society. I would like to conclude that the answer to the ethical degradation comes from within through inward revolution.
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