Family and Nation

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

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THE FAMILY AND THE NATION
I will treat male and female children in my family equally
in education. I will lead from now onwards a righteous life free from
corruption.
Even if ten per cent of the devotees take any one of these vows and practise them, it will bring great peace and stability to society. 'Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of the sinners, or sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delights are in the law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruits in its season and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.4
ETHICAL PRINCIPLES In its evolution, the society has gone from being agricultural to industrial, and more recently, to being an information and knowledge society. In the agricultural and industrial societies, humans and machines dominated. In the information and knowledge society, intellectual capacity will dominate. Intellectual domination is represented by ideologies, principles and faiths. History has shown time and again that whenever paths of individuals, societies and nations cross each other, then human rights are violated. Has man, in his social life throughout history, achieved evolution and exaltation? Is human society really undergoing evolution and will it reach a fully evolved state in future? If it is undergoing evolution, what is that ideal society, or, as Plato would say, that utopia of man, and what are its peculiarities?
Can we afford to close our eyes to the future and say that history inevitably moves on an evolutionary course? Is evolution in Nature imposed by time? Is the ship of time