Ideal Versus Practical

IDEAL VERSUS PRACTICAL The principle of accepting what is practically possible, while setting aside the ideal, constitutes a natural law that operates both at the individual level in personal life as well as collective life. O ften, the reason people face loss is because they do not differentiate between what is ideal and what is practicable. They look at a thing from the point of view of what they regard as the ideal, and when it does not measure up fully to their ideal, they reject it. This is sheer foolishness. In this present world, it very rarely happens that a person obtains something in the form that they consider ideal. In most situations, one must agree to accept what is practically possible. This is not a matter of lack of courage. It is actually a law of Nature, and in this world, in order to succeed, one must accept and abide by the laws of Nature, not clash against them. This principle of accepting what is practically possible operates at the level of an individual’s personal life as well as collective life. Consider an example to understand this point better. One of the new ideologies with immense consequences that emerged in modern times and gained widespread