Credited with the decorum of Non Violence day,October 2 till date has retained the fondly remembrance of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.Numerous articles,podcasts, political drama,over and above the day is just more than a public holiday for the overworked common population of India.The man,his vision and his ideology have been utilised in numerous ways beyond imagination for the culmination of a mass mentality of an ideal figurine.The purpose of the Gandhian way of life is a mockery today as it's just treated with what we call as "Vanja Pugazchi Ani"-an impractical and non sense life style in an all materialistic world.Trying to understand the psyche of Gandhi in connection to the time of his living,I admire him for his journey on a tight and slender rope of truth and truth alone.
In my earlier write up about Gandhi, (A TANGLED REVERENCE),I was trying to understand the experiments he conducted upon himself and upon the society,strictly restricting to his psychological behaviour.Now as I read more and draw parallels from the millennial life style,the ethical conundrum of Gandhi is a worthy introspection.Gandhi's ethical way is based upon truth and one strong conviction,
"Not only does the end result needs to be good but also the pathway to such result should be sin free"
In a world running behind results and lure of fame and wealth,Gandhi's ethical stand is a failing enterprise.It's not faulty but just failing.As we move decade to decade towards the 22nd century, the shackles of culture, the karma theory and the boundaries of morality are getting thawed just like our glacial treasure.Gandhi's idea of Swarajya where we take back to the local democratic roots have been replaced by market oriented society where the production happens not for the need but for the cost.Similarly Gandhi's take on Chaturvarna and his strong belief on the inherent selfless man can be searched today only with a high resolution microscope.Gandhi and Marx, both agreed on a stateless society.However, today though that dream has been half fulfilled,stateless society has been replaced with status hungry markets.
A worthy remembrance today will be Gandhi's opinion on womanhood.True, that the world has marched forward and women today have been making an imprint in almost all fields.Gandhi though rooted to cultural psyche,stands to be a gender neutral person,as far as I have understood.Gandhi's political ideology,where he claims for the bottom up approach and called upon the rich to strive for common progress, is highly flattened in the Globalised era.Lastly,Gandhi's fight against untouchability have taken different forms from two-tumblers to intercaste marriages.But the Indian society have a deeply strong connection of born with the ''chaapa'' of caste rather than equity and equality.His ideals of ahimsa, firm resistance and undeniable belief on humanity can only be considered an Utopian for the current century man.Quoting Einstein,"Generations to come,it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth''
Despite all these,Gandhi as an enterprise who propagated non-violence, truth and firm conviction on religious morality has been reduced to falling legacy overshadowed by the waves of time.In his own words," I am a man of yesterday",Gandhi's wit,wisdom and moral ambiguity have not been subjected to serious investigation by the younger generation.The simple reason being that the man himself has become a base ground for numerous political octopus propaganda.All said and done, the rigorous code of Gandhian ethics and his seven deadly sins concept requires a non-biased and undistracted mind space to revisit during the crucial times of human crisis.
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