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Satyagraha

Civil Disobedience means an act or process of public defiance of a law or policy, duly formulated and created by a governmental authority, which an individual or a group considers to be unjust or unconstitutional. The defiance of the government law or policies must be a pre-meditated act and the movement has to be announced in advance. The defiance of the law might take either a violent or non-violent form. It may be either active or passive. As the basic spirit of the civil disobedience movement is to arouse the public conscience, the individual or the group must be prepared to accept punishment for the violation of law or policies. The action or non-action of civil disobedience has to be openly insisted on in order to be qualified as civil disobedience. The mere non-compliance of legal provisions does not itself constitute civil disobedience.  Gandhi called his concept of civil disobedience as the doctrine of ‘Satyagraha’ or ‘Truth Force’. According to him, the adjective ‘civil’ ...

Free things in our life.

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What do we want in our life? What are our needs? Most people will say, they want wealth, power, happiness, success, love, fame, security and freedom.  Of course, all these things are needed in our life. But there are other things too, which are highly valued but we often neglect them. interestingly most of these things are free of cost. for example air, you can not live without it. Hold your breath for a minute and you will experience how important it is. We don't value it because it is available in abundance. Just like air, there are so many gifts of nature available in abundance and we never appreciate it. We are slaves of our worldly desires - wealth, power, pleasure, comfort and fame. We spend almost all of our time seeking them with a feeling that having them will make us happy.  But unfortunately, no matter how much we get it, we will get used to it and will start demanding more. The greed takes over the needs. The most valuable things are free and there is no n...