Change

Hi friends. After following many blogs, I thought of following and struggling with my own thoughts J. Since I am writing a blog for the first time, you can expect many mistakes. But your valuable feedback will certainly motivate me to improve in the required areas (except thoughtsJ). So here is my first blog: Change.

The flavor of the season and the most talked about topic is “change” in the system.  CWG, 2G spectrum, ISRO’s bandwidth allocation, land and properties scams, blind faith over religious gurus and blah blah blah again have raised a question about our system and its players. We always blame our system for any kind of problem in our society. Now days, it is the hottest and the most lovable topic for graduate people like us to discuss everyday during the lunch at cafeteria. Cursing the system and its sub-systems, we always show that we are graduated. But limiting it to the discussion and not execution, we in fact prove that we are probably graduated but still not educated. 

I always ask a question from myself- “do we really need a change in the system”? May be, but the biggest question is that are we really prepared for this change? May be not because I think there are many other related concerns which need some positive change first like voting on the basis of cast and religion, opposing the migrations from other states and our national language, misuse of democratic rights, being more theoretical rather than practical etc. In fact, we concentrate more on the analysis of a cricketer’s career record to select a dream world cup team rather than analyzing career records and eligibility of the diplomats who are supposed to lead our country and this is one of the reasons leading our country to a dummy and corrupt system. If you notice, you will find that system is always defined. If something is not defined then it is the individual part (us) which together makes a system perfect. So we need a change in our beliefs and thought process first and not in the system.
 

But change is not a sprint. It is a slow and gradual process. We need to initiate, stop and initiate again. In other words, it is essential to maintain a momentum to reflect any change. To bring a positive change, we need to keep the momentum going. To keep the momentum going means we need to refine our own beliefs all the time. But unfortunately momentum itself is missing from the frame. In fact, by setting our own thoughts and actions in the right direction at least we can speed up the momentum which seems inactive. To grow and to bring a revolution, focus should be our beliefs. By choosing the right actions, we will be able to always accelerate our progress by overcoming obstacles, without any resistance.

A quote from SAMSKRUTA SHUBHASHITAS affirms the philosophy of a healthy society to keep the momentum going.

yathA hi ekena chakreNa na rathasya gatiH bhavet | 

evaM puruShakAreNa vinA daivaM na sidhyati || 

Translation of the above sloka is like this- “Just as a chariot cannot move with only one wheel, even so fate not come to fruition without human actions”.

Embracing change is often the most difficult. But refining our own mindset will allow us to fully specialize and then we will experience that change presents the most opportunities, with untold joys. We can always improve and refine our mindset. If we do so, it will give benefits to the society, country and the level of success we achieve in life.