KARMA YOGA: A Philosophy for the Present Youth
Youth, the people in the younger generation are the people with very high energy levels and extremely high levels of enthusiasm in the world. Every human being will experience a greater amount of confidence in him during his youth and this statement is truly indisputable. The zeal to perform and the love to achieve something really special are the characteristic features of the young people. On the flip side, this extraordinary will to succeed or gather attention makes them the most vulnerable group of people who can be influenced very easily. This vulnerability is utilized by some fanatics and lunatics for fulfilling their evil intentions and that is the most common phenomenon in the present and also the least desirable. Endurance and perseverance are the words that are far apart from the majority of youth which is indeed an extremely undesirable phenomenon.
India with its ever increasing population is one of the largest and youngest states in the world. The term young here refers to the average age of the people in the nation. It is also a known fact that Indian civilization is one of the oldest. This pioneer mix of young people with oldest civilization can work wonders and some of the glimpses of such wonders can be conceived from the achievements of our nation in the recent past. But the available potential and the results achieved are truly incomparable. Though we talk a lot about a lot of achievements there are equally or more number of important issues that need to be addressed very urgently. With this population and man power the amount of success we have achieved in any field is definitely an underachievement and there is an urgent need for reconciliation of our principles of education and also the system. Every year we manufacture thirty lakh graduates from India . Yes the word manufacturing is apt because the present education system in our nation emphasizes either good standard only in mathematics and sciences or an ill standard education only meant for increasing the no of literates without providing any useful knowledge. The former education is affordable for well to do, urban and brilliant students and the latter is applicable for the children in villages whose parents are illiterates and economically backward. Both the above mentioned systems have a good number of flaws and rectifying them takes a certain amount of time as changing the education system overnight is not possible even in fiction.
Now, coming to Karma Yoga, it is not a difficult, highly intellectual philosophy which can be understood only by yogis or rushis. It is just another way of life where it is believed that everything we undergo in this life is the sum of the results of all the karmas(works) we have performed earlier. If we try to understand this more closely this theory can be explained with a good logic. Here in explaining the life we can take a simile of the law of conservation of energy where energy can neither be created nor it can be destroyed but it can only be transformed from one form to the other. In the same way we are enjoying the fruits of our past actions and the present actions shape up our future. This is easily understandable but there arise a good number of doubts about certain situations for even the noblest person cannot think of any reason. Here we need to go deeper into the philosophy where we have the law of reincarnation and the inability of the human brain to store all the actions performed in the past. Finally the most important preaching of this Karma Yoga is to work for work’s own sake. That we should love the work we do but not the result and that will indeed help us lead a happier life.
Karma yoga for the youth can help the nation a lot. There are a good number of reasons for this like
1. It is a very easy philosophy to understand and there is literally no need for any sacrifices to be made.
2. Loving ones work is not at all difficult if one is totally interested in doing that work.
3. Working like a master is far better than working like a slave. In detail if we work to impress someone we are doing slave’s work because we are expecting something from the other person so we are slaves. When we work for our satisfaction we do not need others consent and that is masterly work.
In this way there are a lot of reasons why Karma yoga is apt for the present day youth but what can be the results?
People will start loving themselves and thus their works and so quality increases. Everyone will think twice before doing something wrong as they would believe in karma and its effect. Though there is a lot more in this philosophy the above mentioned basics are sufficient to make a giant leap in the nation’s development. So karma can be the philosophy that can help people help them and in turn help the nation as a whole.
Mallikarjuna Rao Kanala
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