You exist for society or society exists for you? Asked Jiddu Krishnamurti. Answer must be that each one of us lives for the society, if it is generalized after taking into account the "mass-culture". Mindful life is missing from everywhere. People want to be efficient. There is a competitive ecology prevalent all around between human species and smart computers or between masses of individuals. What do we want to achieve? Nothing! Is there any worth achievement which will be endurable? Even if one's name remains alive for thousands of years. Will it be sufficient to make one happy? Happiness is not an outside object, whose acquisition is dependent upon money. Happiness is not a goal, which may be achieved once for all. It is a means, a way, and it remains a way. Destination is a myth, a perception. Even a dead leaf has not reached to its destination. You may be good at production, of goods, services, wealths, but production mentality is obnoxious to happiness, peace, and integration. You may be a good useful machine, working for someone or something, but in the end, you are being consumed by your works. You might be a victorious, conquerer, a successful person, but your every victory over enemy is a defeat not perceptible very easily. Every conquerer is conquered by his own pride. Every victory is a seed of downfall. One can't fly always. Ground is necessary for every glorious or inglorious flight. You can't be efficient without any cost. Loss is perceptible. We are materially growing and our mind is witnessing its instability. We are living in a culture of "dil mange mor". This culture is thriving at the tune of "hum hai naye andaj kyon ho purana". But do we witness anything new when our mind is malfunctioning like an efficient consumer? Do we do anything differently except recycling old and making it remix? Perhaps, a multitasker is good for nothing except one is running after quantities. Who cares about quality? It is an old school question. Which is needless to be attended.
Aristotle once wrote in his Nicomachean Ethics that there are four significant virtues for human beings, namely Prudence, Temperance, Justice, and Courage. There are a few judges who have courage and sense of justice, both. Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rohinton Nariman has been truly an exemplar judge and erudite historian, theologian and philologist, a great scholar of music as well as a courageous and meticulous jurist of our country. He did his Master of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1980-81 and taught by one of the finest jurists of the last century, Roberto Unger. He became Senior Advocate in 1993 in the age of 37 and also served as Solicitor General of India in 2011 before he was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court of India in 2014. He delivered many landmark judgments, including Shreya Singhal v. Union of India. There are a few people with whom time moves too fast, but to count that experience takes ages. Justice Rohinton Nariman is one of those great jurists with whom a meet...
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