I am fresh from a rewarding tour to my native place. Somehow I always find that in my visits I come to discover certain different angles of viewing the problems of life. Thanks to my parents!
This time me and my father were discussing about certain village school, where the good man who set the school, has employed few destitutes as teachers and care-takers. Everything else in the school was very nice. But the problem was the fact that lot more could be done if the people in the school are a bit more pro-active. There I found the refined defiiton of the problem of our land. Its the lack of "proactiveness".
So the real question of development is how to motivate people to be a bit more proactive!
I found something which seemed to me as a solution. Somehow I laid my hands on a book that has been lying in our home for few years at least. It was the explaination of Gita by Acharya Vinoba, translated by Annapurna Maharana. (PS: Acharya Vinoba is one of the true yogis of our era. Those who have heard the stories of AngurimAlA or Valmiki, Vinoba is man who did the same magic in our era. He went to Chambal (the once-heaven for dreadful dacoits!) emptihanded and made them submit for a better peaceful life! Annapurna Maharana belongs to a family which has given all its wealth, both material and man for the land. And please mark that the discourse was made to an audiance consisting of jail-inmates!)
Reading through the book, I got a strange feeling. May be here lies the solution. If somehow we can melt the ideas a bit further and convince people that its an reward in itself to work endlessly with no expectations,.... if only.......
