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BIRTH OF A NOBLE NATION
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ETHICS FOR THE NATION
So far we have discussed evolution of human life and evolution of human society. Birth of a noble nation would need studying the challenges faced by society due to the continuous process of growth and environmental deterioration and finding a sustainable solution to remedy the damage and promote a conflict-free society for posterity. This would require working for a clean, green environment, developing a healthy society through a three-pronged model and making enlightened citizens through value-based education, transforming religion into spirituality and above all creating a poverty- and illiteracy-free nation. Also, we have discussed the promotion of Unity of Minds among citizens for generating a happy society. All this can be realized if the entire nation has an ethos of 'work with integrity and succeed with integrity'. Where does it start? How can the national ethics be evolved? We propose the following algorithm. A nation has to have ethics in all its tasks for sustained
economic prosperity and peace. If a nation is to have ethics, society has to promote ethics
and value systems. If society is to have ethics and value systems, families
should adhere to ethics and value systems. If families have to evolve with ethics and value systems,
parenthood should have inbuilt ethics. Parental ethics come from great learning, value-based
education and creation of clean environment that leads to righteousness in the heart.
There is a beautiful connectivity between heart, character, nation and the world. In a society, we have to build righteousness among all its constituents. For society as a whole to be righteous, we need creation of righteousness in
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