I see few politicians and some highly educated people consciously utter insensitive remarks on our mother land, Army and PM. I wonder why? Is it utter selfishness? Is it for Political mileage? It’s beyond a lay man’s thinking capacity to find an answer. I feel it is sheer absence of gratitude and patriotism.
Gratitude
is the highest form of one’s conscience towards the country. It is the
unconditional loyalty to the country. An army man fight for the country because
of the loyalty and highest form gratitude towards the country and not for the
money. The rulers of a country must have the same commitment towards country
and vision for the prosperity. A person with greed, lust and selfishness is
pain to any nation. The Deceit is pure result of greed and selfishness. A
person with lack of respect to the country may be lost in the lust and greed, paralyzed
mentally and fail to realize that ruining self by ruining the country. It is
unfortunate that India
is going through a tough time. Rulers
and leaders are becoming more and more selfish and greedy. The leaders are
becoming less loyal to the nation and loyal to their lust and greed.
“Loyalty is the first quality
of a good minister. He should not be an opportunist like the rats who leave a
sinking ship. The ruler while choosing his assistants should look for
trustworthiness and loyalty. A loyal minister will be with the ruler always in
sunshine and rain”. - Chanakya
Tarnishing
Country’s image:
Insulting
one’s own land, questioning the loyalty of the military and praising the enemy
is the act of greed and selfishness. A person or a leader of this kind with
absence of gratitude and patriotism are left with lust and greed. When the lust
and greed dominates one’s mind resulting in exit of the conscience from the
soul. Hence for them prosperity of the country is less priority than greed.
Absence
of Gratitude in society:
Under
the influence of selfish motives some people defend acts of corrupt leaders and
some unruly activists. Absence of gratitude also influences day-to-day life of
a common man. For example; SPITTING on the road, throwing GARBAGE on the road,
having no respect for Country’s flag, perspective change on the basis of caste
and question everything claiming freedom of speech. In
recent times some people are opposing Demonetization in India without
any logic. There will be some difficulties initially as this is a great task. People
don’t mind queuing-up for iPhone, Discount sale, Movie tickets, restaurants,
casinos, etc. But they re finding it difficult to queue-up at ATM. Let us have
some gratitude towards our country. Let’s not allow greed and lust dominate
patriotism. Let us make our country
beautiful for the future generation, let us not give them a chance to curse us.
Teach the younger generation to have gratitude and patriotism. When country
prospers so does the common man!
“Patriotism
is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves
it” –Mark Twain