The Wisdom of Life

It was America’s good fortune that it found leaders throughout its history, who were free from the delusions of utopianism. They understood the laws of nature and started their national journey in accordance with these laws. By making steady progress for the last hundred years, America has come to be the foremost power in the world. This principle of nature, in brief, favours healthy competition. The American leaders granted freedom to their citizens and opened up opportunities to achieve the desired success by proving their capability in a highly competitive field. These leaders limited the Government’s sphere to law and order, thus granting its citizen full freedom on action in other fields. As a result everyone found unhampered opportunities for the optimal development of personal potential. The American leaders did not attempt to pour society into the mould of a fabricated ideology as the basis for national progress. Instead they looked only at what was naturally sustainable and adopted it. On the contrary, in the Soviet Union certain theorists clinging to a contrived ideology, attempted to re-structure the whole of society accordingly. When society refused to accept this, the rebels were killed in millions, as if they had no more significance than insects. This scheme of things was against nature and that is why, after a tumultuous struggle spanning over 75 years, it met with total failure. The same was the case with India and Pakistan. Here too certain leaders devised certain ideologies of their own and wished to re-cast their entire countries in this mould. The attempt to implement this system by force was a total failure. And the precious period of fifty years of freedom was wasted callously. The Indian and Pakistani leaders should have adopted the same principle as nature adopts with regard to water. When