Is India Great?

The growth and development of any society depends on the development ……the dignity of the society also. A dignified society means dignified actions of individuals as well as societies concerned. The cream of advaita system is to make every individual acieve … perform is functions that means every individual has to reach the such a hierarchy is uncommon in the advaita system… what is not the hierarchical discrimination but the What it means is that there must be classifications but thy should be performed in a meticulous manner. Such a society alone can be said to be dignified society. Dignified society according to advaita is not a society of high grade professionals like doctors, engineers, lawers etc. but a ….every individual must be able to perform their respective duties at a professionally dignified manner. So, the advaita aims at the discharge of performance. Any society can attain a dignified status when every member of the same society performs his/her respective function in a dignified manner. If sweeper happens to be performing his assigned work much better than the Managing Director, then the sweeper must be adjudged the best individual in the firm. The advaita system says that a person is known through actions and if the actions (karma/functions) are always done in a meticulous manner, such a person can be called a great person; Mahatma Gandhi has been great through the great deeds he has done. A great society is one the members of which do their functions in a dignified manner and a great nation is the one with such individuals or societies. The takes us to the fact that nobody can be great for reasons he is born to great people or great heredity or great tradition. Suppose somebody says that ‘I’m great because I’m born in India; such a statement is not authentic because a person becomes great only when e is able to discharge his role in a dignified manner. This factor has often been forgotten. There is no meaning in a claim such as India is a great country because it has a great tradition. India can be great only if we recognise that tradition and live according to the standards set. So it is actions that make a person great and not persons that make actions great. This fact has to be admitted as the basic content of Advaitic attitude towards social hierarchy.