The greatest disaster we are moving towards is: When man will lose control of his mind, his thinking, his imagination and his personality.
Dr. Jernail Singh Anand
A scene in front of Heaven:
[Brahma and Narad come on the stage]
Brahma: Have all those people come?
Narada: Yes Sire.
Brahma looked at them with eyes full of compassion. Who were they? In millions and from all the countries, religions and classes.
Brahma:
It is our Alms Day for the Crippled. Here, I bless you. Thou shall have an hour during the day, when you will be able to stay alone, and look within. A little bit of peace will filter into your consciousness. Otherwise, in our records, you are gone.
Narada: Sire, don’t you see these are all the rich businessmen, bureaucrats, politicians, professionals of the world. These people will turn out all the gods and their idols from their shrines.
Brahma:
Don’t worry. They are all defective machines which gobble up all that is good on this earth, and give back, nothing but evil.
[Scene fades]
This is what was happening at the gate of Heaven. Gods think all our able-minded people, in their view, are carriers of evil and they treated them as mentally retarded people.
It is only with human beings. Animals possess no evil because they have no ambitions. And trees are saints because they drink on the evil of mankind, and turn it into nectar. Just think how they inhale carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen. Waters nurture life, without bothering whether the hand that holds the glass of water is that of a murderer or a victim of vengeance. Winds are there all around, agitated only when too much foul smell is released by men’s deeds. Otherwise, they just flow. Flowers are compulsive beauty salons of the earth.
Good is a part of the natural behaviour of man. He is not evilly inclined. It ia only the question of survival which forces him to shed his goodness, and think of his survival. Good is a value which comes only after we find ourselves alive, and in little bit of comfort. The idea of art and culture enters human perception now.
No phase of life has been able to give a stable life to mankind. Things have always been churning. History is witness to the fact that people were either killed by brutality of the masters, or in the battles they fought for them. Men who lived beautifully, and with their head high, – I wonder if they exist in the annals of history. If we think of homo-sapiens like Hitler and Alexander, it is better if we look at how many people had to lose their lives, and their essential freedom. It is shameful to ascribe any glory to these people, who believed in bullying and butchering humanity.
Can we call it an error-free world? It may be error-free, but it is disaster prone.
Although men spend thousands of hours planning things, they succeed only to a point. Finally, the only description that can be given to human life is that we are tumbling from day to day. The assured movements as in a circus are not possible. Man cannot be sure of his actions and their fall out. Yes, there is circusian exaction so far as human engineering by divine manufacturies is concerned. What looks so odd and pernicious, falls very well with a design, we are unable to decipher.
Why God’s world is Perfect?
God’s world is perfect. It is perfect in its imperfection. We human beings are full of faults. We are born with defective memories. The things that we do, are sometimes perfect, and most of the times, failures. We have no control over our emotions. We do not know our descent. They are a thousand things that we do not know about ourselves. The lack of knowledge is our real boon that God has given us. Just imagine, what would have happened to us, had these faults not been a part of man’s makeup. These blemishes make our world complete and perfect in its own way. Another explanation for this can be: that Gods want us to remain inefficient and go on making mistakes, and asking for forgiveness.
However, now we look at man’s world. His machines do not make mistakes. Computers are too efficient. They do not make mistakes. If there is a mistake, it is a disaster [remember the recent outage]. The machines know their job well. They have a perfect memory. And now, with AI, technology is all set to replace so many systems, including the thinking aspects of mankind. In spite of all its precision, and exactness, and fail-free operations, we cannot call it a perfect world. It is an emotionless world, and man minus emotions is just a machine. De-emotionalization of mankind is the agenda of the upcoming regime of computerization. Is it not a blunder? Man’s world does not possess faults which can be repaired, it has mechanism which invite far greater disasters. And the greatest disaster we are moving towards is: When man will lose control of his mind, his thinking, his imagination and his personality.
Can we call it an error-free world? It may be error-free, but it is disaster prone.
Brief
God’s world stands head and shoulders above man’s universe, in that its denizens know their brief well. Men’s creations also know their brief rather too well. But this is the world of the dead. As we move towards technologization of human process, we are walking of the living into the world of the dead. I think uptil now, we have had the world of the dead under the earth. Now, these machines are creating a dead world on the surface of the earth, and we are participating in it.
What we aspire for? A world of mechanical perfection away from God? Or a world of imperfections, dissimilarities, discriminations, yet a kind and humane world of God? Do we want life with its imperfections, or technology with its deadly precision? Preference is yours: God or the Corporate. At least God is not greedy. The corporate has only one passion: to the skin the sheep. But God is not greedy. He loves His lambs. God does not put them into the boiling cauldron and sell their flesh like popcorn.
Read: MORAL CRIMES AND LOSS OF CHARACTER
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Dr. Jernail Singh Anand, President of the International Academy of Ethics, is author of 161 books in English poetry, fiction, non-fiction, philosophy and spirituality. He was awarded Charter of Morava, the great Award by Serbian Writers Association, Belgrade and his name was engraved on the Poets’ Rock in Serbia. The Academy of Arts and philosophical Sciences of Bari [Italy] honored him with the award of an Honorable Academic. Recently, he was awarded Doctor of Philosophy [Honoris Causa] by the University of Engg and Management, Jaipur. Recently, he organized an International Conference on Contemporary Ethics at Chandigarh. His most phenomenal book is Lustus: The Prince of Darkness [first epic of the Mahkaal Trilogy]. Email: anandjs55@yahoo.com
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