NEIGHBOURS

I have a few neighbours in my life. This sentence seems a bit ambiguous. Literal meaning is, persons residing in our surrounding. Nevertheless, minutely, the sense is somewhat else. They all are my neighbours whose minds move in the same atmosphere as that of mine. In this aspect, the dwellers of surrounding may not be our neighbor. Even the family members may not come in this category. Perversely, the persons residing far away may come in this group. In our day-to-day life, we see worldly neighbours always quarreling and very often, they take the help of polices and courts. What to talk about rift among brothers, even wife-husband, father-son, mother-son quarrelling cases have become common. These all are due to selfishness. Son is son before marriage. After marriage, he becomes short-circuited. This is not our Indian culture. This has been imported from west. Lack of moral teachings is the root of these evils. Our’s is the country of Shravan kumar who takes his blind parents to all pilgrimages. We belong to the dynasty of Ram, Bharat, Krishna, Gandhi who know only sacrifice. We only know to conquer self. We only know giving instead of taking. There is only one field in which we were the tutor of the world and again can teach the world. That is spiritualism, the originator of morality. When we shall give education of morality to our children, they will become Sravans and the whole world will be our neighbours. ‘Vashudhaiv kutumbkam.’