A plethora of articales written
and speeches have been delivered on the importance of spiritual development
along with the development in the physical world. Scholars having thoughts and
ideology of this “style” often have a religious disposition. This is the reason
why many modern people don’t consider it worthwhile as we have made religiosity
a separate entity. But this matter is a grave one and deserves a serious
thought in real life.
If we look at the ramifications
of not considering spiritual building in our society we realize that this
negligence has wreaked havoc in our society. Today our nation has an obvious outlook
of a crowd, or a mod exaggeratingly. There are several reasons for this
menacingly odd situation, all spiritual in nature. This is not because we have
less developed roads and buildings, less jobs or less education, rather because
we have less clarity of our objectives, and aimless beings. Nation states are
made by common ideology, sacrifice, law abidingness and truthfulness. All these
qualities are spiritual in nature not material and require justice, equality, opportunity
and inspiration to flourish. Unless and until these trends hold ground in a
society, it can’t prosper.
It’s the philosophy of spiritual
development that compels individuals to become moral beings. Spiritual strength
makes men to overcome the material hurdles and keep working honestly on their
ends otherwise they are lured and tempted to mould their ambitions towards
wealth accumulation as they enter practical life. This is why the innocent and
competent students wishing to join medical for helping miserable humanity get
status sick after passing out of medical colleges and same for army officers
and the likes. There may not be much difference in the actions of a spiritual
and material being but difference of view as what a materialistic man does for
his personal gain, a spiritually developed man dose the same for the betterment
of humanity. When the stress of society is upon the wealth as the social symbol
of superiority then every individual would enter the same race even unknowingly.
The question arises what ought to
be done on government and social level. I leave this question unto you to
think, to ponder and prove to yourself because as much we think about a matter,
its importance its reality is engraved in our heart to help change us for ourselves.
Usman Akhlaq
(white.snowpeaks@gmail.com)
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