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THE FAMILY AND THE NATION
-a person making statements that just don't hold together indicates that he is lying.
JUST SOCIETY The ninth and last aphorism is healthy economics. Wealth is one of the most important needs of a person's life. So much so that money should be added to the list of air, light and heat, bread, water, clothing, house, medicines, for each of these things comes out of money. A society that is dominated by wealth as well as the one that suffers from its scarcity are both sick. How can individuals living in a sick society remain healthy? Those who live a life of deprivation suffer from worrying about bread. The Sanskrit words for worry (chinta) and funeral pyre (chita) are very similar. There is a difference of just one dot. Just as on a funeral pyre a dead body is burnt, in the same way worry consumes a person during his life. A person suffering from penury neither gets nourishment nor the essential minimum needs. Hence, the needy cannot be deemed as physically, mentally or emotionally healthy. At the other end, rich people suffer because of overconsumption of material objects. They lack satisfaction because they have too much of everything. Both rich and poor can be found using drugs and alcohol. A needy person takes to them to lessen his anxiety and pain. The rich take to them to lessen their perennial anxiety over the safety of their wealth.
Despite all the progress made by humanity, economic disparity has not been reduced. Rather, it has increased. More than 50 per cent of workers all over the world live on less than $2 a day. In India, 220 million people live below the poverty line. Globalization is taking away the livelihood of people engaged in making small articles of domestic use. Cottage and small-scale industries cannot compete with big corporations. We cannot solve the problem created by
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