Shortly before the assassination, in 1948, of India's one-time spiritual and political leader, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the old man gave the his grandson, Arun Gandhi, a piece of paper on which he had written down what he considered the Seven Blunders of the World:
Wealth without workPleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humanity
Worship without sacrifice
Politics without principle
Arun Gandhi later added an eighth blunder to his grandfather's list:
Rights without responsibilities
Sixty years on, it seems, many of those blunders are still being made...
3 comments:
Not only many of them, I would say all of them ! Most of them by me if I'm honest.
Very WISE! I have great admiration for Mahatma Gandhi. My father was brought up in Northern India,which is now Pakistan,at the time when Gandhi was beginning to make himself noticed and he always considered Gandhi to be a damned nuisance! But then contemporaries of Jesus probably thought the same of Him...
Would that we had more Gandhis to exemplify the non-blundering path! Doesn't it seem sometimes that our social institutions teach only the left-hand terms but not the right?
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