ETHICS AND SUCCESS
THE DREAM OF SUCCESS AND THE WORLD OF WIT-WOULDS AND HALF-HUMANS
-DR. JERNAIL SINGH ANAND President, IAE
[This article throws light on our love for Success which simply means Wealth Creation. It is a sordid boon, which denies us the Bliss of Happiness. The real pursuit of mankind is and should be for Happiness, and Greater Good. Lacking which, we remain wit-woulds, and half-humans.]
SUCCESS: A BITCH GODDESS
Success is the main driving force of the world today. Every parent, every teacher, every course and every production house, believes in nothing but success. Success is a bitch goddess. It makes its worshippers blind towards so many things.
Let us define who is a man of success.
A man who has amassed wealth is a man of success. A man who has resources, who has manpower, who has multi-pronged business, who owns business in several countries – is a successful person. A person who can sell his wares, his books, his formulas, his ideas, and create wealth – don’t forget please – wealth, is successful.
All pursuits which do not lead to creation of wealth are failures.
All those fields of life in which wealth creation is not possible, the millions who suffer for a square meal, who work from morning to evening, husband and wife, and pay EMI’s are fools of the idea of success.
A successful man knows how to befool wisdom, how to hijack faith and how to decamp after raising huge loans.
All the young men lined up in jhugi jhomprids, all the students in all the departments in all universities and all colleges, have only one thing in common and that is A BLIND FAITH IN SUCCESS.
LOSS OF ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES:
THIS IS OUR WORLD, THE WORLD OF MONEY, THE WORLD OF VAULTING AMBITION, THE WORLD OF SUCCESS, AND THE WORLD WHICH ULTIMATELH LEADS TO ULTIMATE FAILURE OF MANKIND.
It is the world of Macbeth. It is the world of Dr. Faustus. Both suffered. Both repented. We too shall repent.
Success which is defined in the absence of morals, ethics, and values, is a GRAND THUMPING FAILURE.
If you don’t believe me, look at yourself. Look at your parents. Look at your friends. Who were involved in wealth Creation. How happy they are? Who is happy in this world? Has wealth and success given any succor to human race?
It is devastating that the more we run after success, the greater are the resources that we create at our command, and greater is the material comfort, while, simultaneously, we are depleting as human beings, we are on a losing spree as happy humans. A time comes when we do not even remain human, such is the passion after wealth.
THE DREAM OF SUCCESS:
SUCCESS has no meaning if it comes at the cost of Ethical values. All those who have amassed wealth, and run around the world in aeroplanes, are half-humans. Gods wonder how and when they made such a mistake that such people are masquerading as humans.
During the last fifty years, we have been after the DREAM OF SUCCESS. What are our gains? Finally, we find ourselves impoverished as human beings. It is no gain to become a robot. It is no gain to become a machine. It is no gain if we have millions and our heart lusts for a breath of happiness.
It is a pity, we think SUCCESS is the end of our career. No. The ultimate end of all human effort is ; HAPPINESS. Not alone ours, but the HAPPINESS OF THE WHOLE MANKIND. If our efforts are not aimed at the GREATER GOOD, we are grand WIT-WOULDS. Wealth and Success have no place in the ultimate scheme of things. They are just human resources, and they must be used to create HAPPINESS. If we do not succeed in creating HAPPINESS, we have misused our wealth and even our success. We are DEFAULTERS OF THE HUMAN RACE AND HUMAN FAITH.
AUTHOR:
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand is Founder President of The International Academy of Ethics, a think-tank of Poets, Philosophers, Thinkers, Scientists and Social Scientists. He is Professor Emeritus with the European Institute of the Roma Studies, Belgrade and Honorary Member of the Serbian Writers Association. Dr. Anand has authored 150 books which include 9 epics which are considered world classics. He has innovated the theory of Bio-text in critical theory. The Univ. of Neyshabur, Iran has conducted a Research Project on his Poetry comparing it with Iranian Poets, under Dr. Roghayeh Farsi. His works have been translated into 20 world languages. Contact: anandjs55@yahoo.com
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