Today I read an article in Fortune magazine about how stock markets might never be the same, after the recent crash. Many of those rules that a few generations of human beings went by when it came to stock market investing may now have to change. Well, I think we need to change almost all the rules by which we, as a civilisation, live including the rules that define success and the whole orientation of our progress.
That is because we cannot keep on adding stress to our ecosystem the way we have been doing for the last few decades. The choice before us is stark: reform or perish.
It seems to me the ancient system of life that the sages of India, and other lands, preached and by which our scriptures say our ancestors lived will need to be reviewed. But that is easier said than done. For hundreds of years we have got accustomed to a life powered by animals or machines, and have allowed our faculties to atrophy.
An ancient way of life doesn't mean going back to the bullock cart age. Rather, I would characterise it as living in perfect harmony with nature and creation, while using our currently untapped latent powers to make life easier for us, instead of using the hazardous route of machines and fossil fuels to do it.
More on this later. Stay tuned!
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