---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Venugopalan K M <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:48 AM Subject: Re: a psychological matter To: Shiva Shankar <[email protected]>
Wonderful and still relevant for our times! Dear Shiva, You might have seen certain reports online about certain disturbing events recently encountered by Chithralekha and her husband Sreeshkanth. The matter is being actively pursued by activists all India level, thanks to the tremendous support network we could already create in this case. I will be forwarding updated information later, as the action plan is yet on contemplation ; (for supporting the ostracized couple and for exposing her tormentors which is a huge establishment of party-police-caste-gender-morals combination). Though I consider you already as part of the initiative, the same is coming from Delhi based supporters and you will be getting the updates in due course. Love, Venu. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Shiva Shankar <[email protected]> wrote: > > ... This is a matter of the soul, a psychological matter. In order to make > the world over anew, people themselves must turn onto a different path > psychically. Until one has indeed become the brother of all, there will be > no brotherhood. No science or self-interest will ever enable people to share > their property and their rights among themselves without offense. Each will > always think his share too small, and they will keep murmuring, they will > envy and destroy one another. You ask when it will come true. It will come > true, but first the period of human isolation must conclude. What isolation? > I asked him. That which is now reigning everywhere, especially in our age, > but it is not all concluded yet, its term has not come. For everyone now > strives most of all to separate his person, wishing to experience the > fullness of life within himself, and yet what comes of all his efforts is > not the fullness of life but full suicide, for instead of the fullness of > self-definition, they fall into complete isolation. For all men in our age > are separated into units, each seeks seclusion in his own hole, each > withdraws from the others, hides himself, and hides what he has, and ends by > pushing himself away from people and pushing people away from himself. He > accumulates wealth in solitude, thinking: how strong, how secure I am now; > and does not see, madman as he is, that the more he accumulates, the more he > sinks into suicidal impotence. For he is accustomed to relying only on > himself, he has separated his unit from the whole, he has accustomed his > soul to not believing in people's help, in people or in mankind, and now > only trembles lest his money and his acquired privileges perish. Everywhere > now the human mind has begun laughably not to understand that a man's true > security lies not in his own solitary effort, but in the general wholeness > of humanity. But there must needs come a term to this horrible isolation, > and everyone will at once realise how unnaturally they have separated > themselves one from another. Such will be the spirit of the time, and they > will be astonished that they sat in darkness for so long, and did not see > the light. ... > > 'From the Life of the Elder Zosima' > in The Brothers Karamazov. > -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. -AMBEDKAR http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. -AMBEDKAR http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
