THE NEED TO INSTIL HUMANITY
Have you ever heard a donkey being asked to behave like a donkey? But humans are often requested to behave like humans. The reason being man is the most superior creation of God. He has got the quality of human nature and animals the quality of brute. So, man’s life needs to posses a meaning beyond self-preservation. Values are foundation of a meaningful life.
Values may differ from person to person due to differences in culture, religion, experience and family. But the base of each value should be goodness. Values donot teach how to be happy but how to make oneself worthy of happiness. They make a person understand his limitations and the great heights to which he can rise. Man is responsible for his own deeds, so it is necessary to keep a check on one’s actions. Values help us to do so.
Just as coal gets transformed under tremendous pressure into diamond and the new name is accepted everywhere, similarly human values render the lives and hearts of people pure and sacred. Life doesn’t get meaningful just by making resolutions or by addressing values on some sacred occasion, but these values have to be lived throughout our lives. Man must not move from his values even if there is a treat of danger or loss.
The problems the world is facing today are not because there is a lack of intellectual capacity but because there is a lack of values. A minimum standard of moral conduct should be obvious to everyone.
Edwin Markhani said, ‘We are blind until we see that in the human plan, nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man. Why build these cities glorious, if man unbuilded goes? In vain we build the world, unless the builder also grows.’
Values may differ from person to person due to differences in culture, religion, experience and family. But the base of each value should be goodness. Values donot teach how to be happy but how to make oneself worthy of happiness. They make a person understand his limitations and the great heights to which he can rise. Man is responsible for his own deeds, so it is necessary to keep a check on one’s actions. Values help us to do so.
Just as coal gets transformed under tremendous pressure into diamond and the new name is accepted everywhere, similarly human values render the lives and hearts of people pure and sacred. Life doesn’t get meaningful just by making resolutions or by addressing values on some sacred occasion, but these values have to be lived throughout our lives. Man must not move from his values even if there is a treat of danger or loss.
The problems the world is facing today are not because there is a lack of intellectual capacity but because there is a lack of values. A minimum standard of moral conduct should be obvious to everyone.
Edwin Markhani said, ‘We are blind until we see that in the human plan, nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man. Why build these cities glorious, if man unbuilded goes? In vain we build the world, unless the builder also grows.’
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