Return to Nature

There is nothing wrong with profits. Everyone would want to improve.Even in the spiritual field the aspirant would like to progress. The problem with modern businesses is that they would want profits keep increasing all the time. They want productivity to keep increasing all the time. They want markets to keep getting bigger and their share of the market to get bigger.They want corporations to get bigger and bigger till they are the biggest in the world.

Nature simply does not allow this. It does not play favourites. There is no reason it will favour one country or one people or one ethnic group or one religion over any other. It distrubutes the resources and opportunities equitably. It maintains a dynamic balance among all the players. They are all its children.Towards that end it balances the opposites. What goes up has to come down. The victim will not remain the underdog all the time. So nature plants the seed of destruction into every thing at the time of its birth. What takes birth has to die. That is how nature is sustainable and self replicating. At the same time there are no clones in nature.

All the ancient civilizations understood this and built their societies accordingly. Modern man after he found science as a tool to decipher the mysteries of nature became arrogant. He wants to subvert nature, to improve upon it, to master it. Unless we recognise this as a serious disease, the systems we create, economic, social, political or otherwise, are bound to crash. They will create an illusion of prosperity and wellbeing but under the facade there would be nothing but misery.

Cosmetic solutions will not do. Let us return to nature and learn to respect it.

Ganoba