The Significance of Everything

An average human being is of the view that the rest should be used as a tool to satisfy his unending desires. Such an attitude really makes us to believe that there is no end to the greed and everything that is capable to satisfy our greed also should be justified as a socio, economic and political activity. This attitude is highly dangerous. The present day economic crisis due to the concentration of wealth with a group of individuals is really the result of the absence of nishkama karma, because nishkama karma believes in the sharing of everything, on the presumption that every phenomenon including a piece of dust should be taken into consideration while thinking about the world. It is a fact that the world cannot be completed without having a specific position attached to a piece of dust. A piece of dust also has got its centre in itself; it never depends on the human beings for its existence; a piece of dust never depends on the whole world for its existence, in a sense that the world also depends on the piece of dust. It is mutual dependence and the mutual dependence beginning with a piece of dust has to be admitted as a reality to be experienced by one and all. This fact has often been forgotten by the present day world. That is why they think in terms of the super power the super star, the super economic factor etc. Nobody is super and nobody is supreme and everyone has to play an equal role because everyone has got uniqueness. The uniqueness of every phenomenon has to be admitted as a reality, the moment we think of nishkama karma. Nishkama karma never believes in the discriminations of karma on the basis of its merit, never in the sense that the activity of a doctor is superior to the activity of a scavenger. If a scavenger does his duty in a meticulous and a perfect manner that duty must be supreme, when referred to an action that has not been performed properly (for ex. by a doctor). Like this, every individual and every phenomenon has to enjoy uniqueness in this world. Uniqueness, unity and sharing are the three aspects of nishkama karma. Uniqueness has to be admitted as a prelude for the preservation of the weakest. The weakest in the society has often been ignored on the ground that they are insignificant. Nishkarma says that nobody or nothing is insignificant. The significance of a person or an entity or an object or a phenomenon truly depends on the place in which it has already been fixed. Anything in the right place must be significant. So, you cannot say that this is significant and the other is insignificant. Everything is significant in the context in which it has been placed. This aspect also has to be recognized by nishkama karma. The conclusion should be that nishkama karma is a concept that has to be accepted as one of the preconditions for the preservation of democracy, equality and fraternity which are to be maintained as a prelude to the maintenance of justice. When one provides the other with everything he deserves, then what he does is justice.