If Not Love ..What?

<h1>If Not Love ..What?</h1>Author: <a title="Chandrasekharan Praveen" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/chandrasekharan-praveen/30065.htm">Chandrasekharan Praveen</a>   The soul of India, I am told lives in the villages and a travel  through  our villages is bound to give one a feel of  the salt of the earth!  You are bound to come across simple country folks  with betelnut scarred teeth, shoddy  clothes, disheveled hair and unwashed bodies, but possessing a  definite set of mores and values that make their lives tick. For the city bred, this might appear nauseating!  From the Media, we learn  that our metros  loom with crooks who loot, rape and kill even as ‘ahimsa’ is being preached to congregations in  Churches, Gurudwaras, Mosques and Temples! And these days, it is not uncommon to come across a ‘literate’ generation of youngsters keen on making  a quick  buck, through hook or by crook to lead a lavish life, even as one tries  to live up to the  dream of  Vision 2020 of  a former President !   Life in India can  also take you thorough an emotional roller coaster…Occasionally  the heartbreaking news of  human suffering perpetrated by a few perverts hits  you and  temporarily freezes your  urge to  do anything good for people. You may even ask yourself  whether it is possible to love  your own  country man…Well, I have asked this myself and soon, I  find myself engrossed in misgivings about the message of  UNIVERAL LOVE  propagated by Sri  Sri Ravisankar and Mata Amritanandamayee!   Recently,  wrestling  with  such scruples, I came  across this illuminating talk given  by E. M. Forster during the intra-war years:   “…The idea that nations should love one another , or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard- it is absurd, unreal dangerous. It leads us into perilous and vague sentimentalism. . “ love is what  is needed’ , we chant, and ten sit back and the world goes on as before. The fact is, we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something much less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance…This is the only force which will enable different races and classes and interests to settle down together to the  work of reconstruction.”                                                                                        - E. M. Forster BBC Talk (1941)   Well dear reader, don’t you think Forster’s idea is a common sense approach to the art of  living?    About the Author: 
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The soul of India, I am told lives in the villages and a travel through our villages is bound to give one a feel of the salt of the earth! You are bound to come across simple country folks with betelnut scarred teeth, shoddy clothes, disheveled hair and unwashed bodies, but possessing a definite set of mores and values that make their lives tick. For the city bred, this might appear nauseating! From the Media, we learn that our metros loom with crooks who loot, rape and kill even as ‘ahimsa’ is being preached to congregations in Churches, Gurudwaras, Mosques and Temples! And these days, it is not uncommon to come across a ‘literate’ generation of youngsters keen on making a quick buck, through hook or by crook to lead a lavish life, even as one tries to live up to the dream of Vision 2020 of a former President !

Life in India can also take you thorough an emotional roller coaster…Occasionally the heartbreaking news of human suffering perpetrated by a few perverts hits you and temporarily freezes your urge to do anything good for people. You may even ask yourself whether it is possible to love your own country man…Well, I have asked this myself and soon, I find myself engrossed in misgivings about the message of UNIVERAL LOVE propagated by Sri Sri Ravisankar and Mata Amritanandamayee!

Recently, wrestling with such scruples, I came across this illuminating talk given by E. M. Forster during the intra-war years:

“…The idea that nations should love one another , or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard- it is absurd, unreal dangerous. It leads us into perilous and vague sentimentalism. . “ love is what is needed’ , we chant, and ten sit back and the world goes on as before. The fact is, we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something much less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance…This is the only force which will enable different races and classes and interests to settle down together to the work of reconstruction.”

- E. M. Forster BBC Talk (1941)

Well dear reader, don’t you think Forster’s idea is a common sense approach to the art of living?

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