TOWARDS AN ADVANCED NATION

To eradicate the corruption we see today, we need to reengineer individual minds. This requires a spiritual campaign. To eradicate the corruption we see today, we need to re-engineer individual minds. This requires a spiritual campaign. We need to replace the money-oriented mind with a value-oriented mind. We need to make people believe that money is a need, and not a goal. People’s concern for the self needs to be replaced with concern for the nation. To eradicate corruption, we have to give individuals a goal greater than money, just as to shorten a line, you only need to draw a longer line next to it. In the same way, to eradicate corruption, we should have a higher goal of intellectual or spiritual development. In other words, we have to replace money as a goal with wisdom as a goal. Although it is a long process, it is nevertheless the only process that can produce results. There are no shortcuts. Anti-corruption movements generally demand the enactment of anticorruption laws. We already have anti-corruption laws. But these laws have obviously failed to eradicate corruption. Why? Because without implementation, laws are just words on paper. Laws can only be implemented by people. These people have to be persons who are not corrupt and who possess full authority. People such as these are the rarest of the rare; they seem to be non-existent. Had such people existed, the laws we have would have been sufficient. The pursuit of wealth will only lead to discontentment, while the pursuit of wisdom will always lead to contentment. Only the content can abandon corrupt practices. To achieve this goal, we have to address individual minds, not attract crowds. A spiritual revolution cannot be brought about by a mob. And, it is only a spiritual revolution that can root out corruption in our country. Expectations from Media as a Tool of Social Reform It is said that media is a powerful tool for ushering in social reform. It is certainly true that the media has achieved the status of the greatest industry; it is present in every home, big or small. But there is no social reform. Everyone complains about the deterioration in human and social values. Why this failure of media in bringing about social reform? In spite of great expansion, the media has had little positive effect on our present society.