Family and Nation

Author(s): Mahapragna Acharya, A P J Abdulkalam
Publisher: Harper Publications India

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THE FAMILY AND THE NATION
that we should investigate the root cause and find solutions both inside and outside. The external aspect of our strategy to solve a problem is the environment and the inner one is passion.
For purifying the instincts of desire and wealth, Dharma becomes the most important thing in life. Here, we do not want to identify Dharma with any creed. Dharma in the form of morality and spirituality is not connected with any creed. Although everyone is endowed with intuition, which is the inner consciousness, yet as one attaches more importance to wealth and materialistic objects, one's externally oriented consciousness is more active, and hence, one always tries to perceive reality only through it. It is because of this that most of one's decisions are incorrect. In order to take the right decisions, one needs to develop one's power of intuition or inner consciousness.
As a means of building an equitable, sustainable order, both the economic systems-socialistic and capitalistic-have not delivered. In our view, both socialistic and capitalistic systems are examples of extreme thinking. What is needed is a search for a middle path in which individual property is not banned completely and at the same time, there is no unrestricted or unscrupulous freedom for the accumulation of wealth. The crying need of the present age is the fixing of limits for both accumulation and individual ownership. The cornerstone of Indian culture has to be, 'Do not amass inessential wealth and do not cause suffering to others in trying to achieve your happiness.'
In our view there are fourteen main constituents of culture: (1) social order and milieu; (2) philosophy of economics; (3) system of governance (political apparatus); (4) politics; (5) foreign policy; (6) trade policy; (7) ideals of secularism; (8) philosophy of religion; (9) sciences; (10) schools of philosophical thought; (11) education; (12) language and