Morals and Methods

Morals and Methods 

        By- Pamarty Venkataramana

Are morals and methods polar opposites in every way?

Is it a truism that today’s moral philosophy rests more on tricks than virtues?

Is it indeed sportsmanship when players are auctioned at sponsored events?

Is happiness the result of pursuit of virtues and sadness or melancholy being the reward whenever virtues falter?

Is character the determinant of a persona or is it the marketing sheen which maketh the personality? 

Is it excellence of thought or the excellence of character that attracts the world to any person?

Can ends justify the means where methods adopted are not moral?

Is it moral for the State to license and sell alcoholic beverages and punish those indulging in binge drinking knowing fully well that it is an addiction ?

Is it not anachronistic that land of Ayurveda is not permitting clinical trials in alternative medicinal systems for treatment of Covid19 but us instead turning hub to manufacture vaccination for foreign lands?

Can technology like EVM substitute the fool-proof human-element in battles of the Ballot? Are machines immune to the menace of rigging and other such banal electoral practices?

Can sharp methods substitute or justify the lack of morals?

Moral turpitude is a trait which turns into a characteristic when thrust upon society from the top of heirachy of a Government.

It can destroy personal values and societal-motes if morals are given a ‘go-by’, bythe powers-that-be, in order to resort to and wrong methods, with aim of succeeding, either by hook or by crook. So, be wary.

How can we in India bring back a world of Sanatana Dharma through restoration of moralistic practices as being right methodology?

1 – Through Precept:
A scion of erstwhile regime vying to be the Prime Minister is having a ‘citizenship issue’ pending before a Parliamentary House Committee since long years.  The #GoodGovernance dispensation has to determine this issue before letting lesser mortals fight out their citizenship status on the streets and in television talk-shows.

2 – Through Principles:
The ‘secular’ Government has a tight-fist control over the philanthropic coffers of Hindu temples even as  Mosques and Churches are not controlled by State.This must change. Embracing every minority community for sake of votes or out of fear of being assaulted by fanatical mobs, is one thing. Yet, strangulation of the majority population is nothing short of perpetuating gory rule of long dead and gone evil Mogul hordes.

3 – Through Prescription:
A unitary system under a federal structure forms the design of #GoodGovernance in our country.

Unless leaderships live up to high moral ground prescribed in the ‘oath of office’ administered to them, Karma is but bound to catch up with these renegades even if they escape the long arm of Law.

Is it not a violation of moral turpitude norms when August Houses of Parliament silently pass an unanimous resolution raising their salaries and ratifying all political donations received by all political outfits with retrospective effect dating back to over five
decades? 

Dharma is constant and universal in its application.

Karma is ever-fluctuating.

Onus lies upon the person concerned to either reap the benefits of good actions or instead,to face dire consequences of acts of greed,envy and wickedness.

The choice remains : ‘Not Revolution but Evolution’ should be the adage in laying a path to solving a lot of problems which arise purely on account of the eternal conundrum –   ‘ morals or methods’ ?

Post-pandemic Indian nation must not be allowed to slide further but to rise above the deadly sins of parochialism, casteism and political opportunism.

Morality rules a society led by Sanatana Dharma.

One of the positives in the last few years has been that India has begun to give an image of vitality here at home and abroad. Moral tags such as ‘na khawunga,na khanedoonga’ have definitely begun to inspire motivate and stir the good masses in our plural society.

A greater thrust is needed to let remaining sceptics also shun their foul methods and to bend willingly to the dictates of good conscience.

Morals are saviours.

Unscrupulous methodology kills.

It is not foolish or ‘impractical’ to embrace morals. Spread the good news, all!