tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11485813.post1806486532864748107..comments2024-02-03T09:45:28.960+05:30Comments on Enlightened ... There are no special effects.: Coping up with the shaken-up faithSridharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08903225715273678219noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11485813.post-13489010924192854192010-03-15T14:34:18.791+05:302010-03-15T14:34:18.791+05:30Hmm - we are moving away from my original post. A...Hmm - we are moving away from my original post. Agreed that the responsibility on institutions is a collective one. The collection must be made of people with integrity - I'm interested in the individuals than more abstract systems, religions and Gods.Sridharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08903225715273678219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11485813.post-15085585736483693352010-03-15T14:18:53.710+05:302010-03-15T14:18:53.710+05:30Maintaining our institutions is a collective respo...Maintaining our institutions is a collective responsibility. We cannot leave it to any one individual. And neither can any one individual be the answer to broken institutions.<br /><br />Indians are experts at coping, and at keeping the faith. We need to get better at expecting and demanding higher standards from our government representatives and our institutions.kingsindianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14428765210295361296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11485813.post-26744444111931285562010-03-15T13:42:15.469+05:302010-03-15T13:42:15.469+05:30The reason why the society keep looking for indivi...The reason why the society keep looking for individuals to give our complete trust is - the institutions are destroyed already. The political, legal and administrative systems have failed the people. Common man no more believes that right will prevail because the system doesn't give that confidence.<br /><br />Which is why, I say - faith will face crisis. It doesn't matter whether it is a faith on an individual or a system. Learn to cope with it.Sridharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08903225715273678219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11485813.post-86138157017016030982010-03-15T13:25:46.162+05:302010-03-15T13:25:46.162+05:30We Indians have a tendency to deify people, anoint...We Indians have a tendency to deify people, anoint someone as being the <i>great-person-who-can-do-no-wrong</i> and then blindly and unquestioningly follow them. This is true with various Godmen, politicians (Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru, Indira Gandhi), and even athletes (Tendulkar). There is a succession of such "demi-gods" that have taken advantage of their gullible flock, or simply turned out to be human.<br /><br />So I question this whole idea about having blind faith in people. (The fact that this guy was getting some and that it should be a private matter as long as he wasn't preaching abstinence is besides the point.) Faith in religion, God and the greater good is one thing. It is nourishment for the human soul. Expecting other fellow-mortals to be Gods is setting oneself up for eventual disappointment. Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Our founding fathers had this sense and setup the government with a series of checks and balances so that no one individual or branch of government would ever have complete free reign. Today, we as a society keep looking for individuals to give our complete trust to.kingsindianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14428765210295361296noreply@blogger.com