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Social harmony
Social harmony is what a society or a country aspires for. Social relations among different groups are really important aspect for any society to develop as a whole. As an Indian, it’s our responsibility to develop such harmony in our society. And as Romain Rolland (Nobel prize winner in literature) wrote about India that it is this very land of yogis, agriculturist etc that will show the path of love and compassion to the world. Hence it is our right and responsibility to educate the world on that path. But before teaching others we need to look inwards, we need to see the problems within our nation at first. We need to address them in black and white. We should and must criticise the fringes in our society that are trying to disturb the delicate equilibrium of social harmony in our country, but beyond criticising them we must also uphold the value of acceptance which swami Vivekananda taught us. We must have this clear at the back of our mind that what we actually aspire for is a loving and compassionate society which cant be built by excluding the fringes or simply criticising them. In fact what we need is truly and solely the idea developed and practiced on this very land, the idea of spirituality. Romain was actually mesmerised by this idea of oneness, that is seeing every one as brahma, which spirituality taught us ages before the coining of term Social Harmony. This was the philosophy which when projected to the world left everyone bow before the saint Swami Vivekananda. Ancient India’s impeccable texts and saints are in itself a whole book on social harmony.
Social harmony is what a society or a country aspires for. Social relations among different groups are really important aspect for any society to develop as a whole. As an Indian, it’s our responsibility to develop such harmony in our society. And as Romain Rolland (Nobel prize winner in literature) wrote about India that it is this very land of yogis, agriculturist etc that will show the path of love and compassion to the world. Hence it is our right and responsibility to educate the world on that path. But before teaching others we need to look inwards, we need to see the problems within our nation at first. We need to address them in black and white. We should and must criticise the fringes in our society that are trying to disturb the delicate equilibrium of social harmony in our country, but beyond criticising them we must also uphold the value of acceptance which swami Vivekananda taught us. We must have this clear at the back of our mind that what we actually aspire for is a loving and compassionate society which cant be built by excluding the fringes or simply criticising them. In fact what we need is truly and solely the idea developed and practiced on this very land, the idea of spirituality. Romain was actually mesmerised by this idea of oneness, that is seeing every one as brahma, which spirituality taught us ages before the coining of term Social Harmony. This was the philosophy which when projected to the world left everyone bow before the saint Swami Vivekananda. Ancient India’s impeccable texts and saints are in itself a whole book on social harmony.But as time passed there developed different theories of oneness like marxism, Maoism, etc. This idea talked and stressed on rights of the individuals and also improvement of economic conditions of backward class of the world. The idea looked fascinating when the world was going through incidents such as curbing the rights of weaker sections, etc. To an extent we must agree with this idea. After all without equal rights, equality will fail. But the problem comes when such idea takes violent shape, and the idea of rights supersedes the idea of responsibility. Beautifully described by Guru Ji Golwalkar that the Indian way of looking at things is not just rights but also responsibility, it’s actually the combination of both that propels the ship of harmony within the society. This again shows the intellect level of our saints ages before these problems even arrived