Culture of Heedlessness

IN SEARCH OF TRUTH understand issues that were beyond the external world. However, the artificial activities of today’s world have enticed men so strongly towards them that few people now spare time to contemplate the more meaningful questions of life. One of the many questions about human life is: How can one fulfill the material needs of life? In previous ages, this question was a straightforward one. Its purpose was to obtain the necessities of life—food, clothing, shelter, etc. However, modern culture has dramatically exacerbated the issue. Earlier, the question was how the needs of life could be obtained. Later, another question became the focus of attention—how can one get life’s material comforts and luxuries? The issue went even further, and men began to ask: How can life be as enjoyable and pleasurable as possible? How can man’s desires be fulfilled to the maximum possible extent? Arriving here, now man began to focus his whole life only on obtaining material objects of comfort. He no longer had time to think about making his life more meaningful. Because of this situation, we have called contemporary culture the culture of heedlessness. There are two significant aspects of human life. First is the necessities of life, and the second is the purpose of life. An essential part of the ‘progress’ that the present age has registered is that it has dramatically increased the production and availability of material objects, going far beyond basic human needs. These consumer goods have been made to appear very attractive and alluring. As a