SThe power of truth provides unlimited power and incomparable strength to humans. Swami Vivekananda ji has said this. It is true that the continuous development of human civilization is the result of its indomitable curiosity, fervent enthusiasm, will to live, hunger for continuous progress and optimism. The establishment of new values and displacement of old values from time to time in various levels of civilization and culture is like an eternal truth. Change is a basic law of nature. Money is definitely needed for development, but excess money can also mislead the direction of development. Apart from this, the outlook and philosophy of life of the contemporary society continuously evolves according to the circumstances, needs, philosophy and meaning and religious establishments. Since ancient times, the use of money has been considered very important in the course of development.
The philosophy of eternal value and its continuity highlights the intimate aspects related to human life. Truth has also been seen as a principle. In the philosophy of human life, both the factors of money and truth have been important since ancient times. Money is important but money power is not everything. Truth is a universal philosophy of life, it can never be destroyed or annihilated by the lies of money power. Money is a lot but not everything.
Without the principle of truth, Mimamsa in the discussion of wealth is incomplete and unimportant. Illgotten wealth is like a dark cloud after a bright day in a man's character. Truth is the eternal light of life. It has also been realized that due to priority being given to pleasures and luxuries instead of retirement, renunciation, restraint and renunciation, there has been a tradition of giving priority to truth and moral values over money.
Highlighting the practical aspect of truth and morality, it has been written in the Vedas and Puranas that 'the happiness of truth is covered with a vessel of gold, when wealth is vocal, truth is in the background. Truth becomes vocal when money power becomes excessive. Money power is false, truth is eternal and traditional hereditary power. Indian culture and tradition considers the value of truth to be supreme. It has been considered to be certain, irrefutable and always immutable to the level of Advaita in mind, speech and action. The sayings and values of people's life like 'Don't care about form' are deeply embedded in people's lives.
“Satyameva Jayate” mentioned in the Mundaka Upanishad is today the motto of the Indian Republic, which is also an expression of Indian philosophy and life. It is noteworthy that from Vedic philosophy to Jain and Buddhist philosophies, from Islam to Christianity to Sikh Gurus, the importance and unquestionable supreme position of truth has been universally accepted. After the Industrial Revolution in Europe, there were revolutionary changes in the philosophy of enjoyment and the importance of the economic element started becoming the most important determining fact of global and internal life.
The development of capitalist, liberal culture in western countries had a substantial impact on the entire world and moral changes started taking place at the global level. In the modern era of globalization, liberalization and war of economic development, the power of money or money has emerged as the central element of the entire civilization and system on the strength of its immense power. In this era based on the power of money, the situation has become such that politics, society, religion, spirituality, international relations, environment, knowledge, science, philosophy of life have all come into practice as per the dictates of money and wealth.
Today, the power of money is not only affecting family relations, prestige in the social field, political power, balance, influence at the spiritual level, consent at the moral level and international relations but has almost created a situation like having the power to buy them. Despite this, it is almost impossible to suppress or silence the value of truth and its universality or to force it to suppress it.
At the global level, some rich countries and a handful of wealthy individuals believe that when money speaks, truth remains silent, but publicly believing this may seem right on a logical level, but philosophically or culturally and religiously. This is also completely false. If we look at the family social level also, as a result of the decline in the moral values of the society, only those who have sufficient and immense wealth get social prestige.
Society gives importance to the ideology and beliefs of a rich person and he is considered a source of inspiration. No matter how learned and energetic a poor person may be, his words are full of truth and even sad things become unimportant in the society in many instances. Many examples of the importance of money and muscle power are coming before us every day at the political level. In political life, corruption based on money, rigging in elections, buying and selling of voters, undue influence on parties, buying of media channels, news print media etc. put a question mark on the values of truth. Today, inappropriate use of money and power has become a force to suppress truth and deny it.
According to the survey of many national and international organizations, India's low position in its index highlights the increasing bribery, government, nongovernment and corporate world's increasing moral degradation by influencing the ruling institutions with the power of money. Newspapers today are replete with incidents of suppression of the value of truth at all levels of the legislature, judiciary and executive. In today's situation, to get justice from lower level to higher level courts, there is a great need of money to hire expensive lawyers, justice has also now become based on money. Getting justice is no longer the right of the poor, it is only in the hands of the rich.
Even at the international level, the visible equality regarding environmental protection often falls prey to the stubbornness of rich countries by suppressing the truth and using the power of bullying. The dominance of rich countries based on their wealth is visible in many international organizations. This is why global conferences on climate change have been seen to fail at the international level. Because rich countries put the responsibility of the amount of carbon emissions on the heads of more populous developing countries.
Arbitrary interpretation of truth is the reality of the modern era. Suppression of truth has reached such a level that how many times a day a person, under the pressure of money power, does not fail to suppress his instincts by compromising his conscience. And finally Swami Vivekananda ji has said that truth has the power which can provide unlimited power and incomparable strength to human beings. If you follow the unbroken truth then no one is capable of stopping you, it is true that truth Its power is extremely extensive and everlasting.
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