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Harmony Instead of Strife 39

Different communities and societies have come up with
different solutions to their problems from time to time amid
the struggle for rights, class distinctions or illusions of
revolution. Whether it was the Russian Communist Revolution
based on equality, or the French Revolution or Mao’s
Communism in China. Each of these purported solutions failed
due to internal conflicts before they could achieve their goals.
Since then, society has been trying to come out of the erroneous
impression of revolution, reverse revolution and Cultural
Revolution.

Freedom from Degenerate Social Systems

If India wants to come up as united, harmonious, and
powerful nation, it must free itself from the degenerative
systems, traditions and beliefs. What path is to be followed to
achieve this goal? In the past, several such efforts have been
made in India, but as most of them did not work in tandem
with the country’s inner energy, they lead to further problems
instead of solutions. We have always had a stream of social
reformers eager to solve our problems. Some of them turned
critical of society. They earned temporary fame, but could not
come up with concrete results. Some limited their sphere of work
only to political and economic rights, which increased the
influence of groups with vested interests, who started seeking
personal achievements in social welfare and who encouraged
hatred among different classes to further their own political
ambitions, just as it happened in the West. Experience has taught
us that any effort that does not recognize our inner energy will
never succeed. Only a gradual but firm process of social
acknowledgment and social unity that aims at the removal of
social evils, can bring a ray of hope.

In spite of a definite desire to move towards a harmonious
society, the actions of some people turned society into a
battlefield. Some people used the mirage of revolution to poison
minds and some pushed society into a deep slumber promising
dreams of revolution. History has witnessed that a negative
approach can bring short-lived fame but not long-lasting results.