IN FUTURE THE WORLD’S LEADERSHIP WILL BE IN THE HANDS OF INDIA

Everyone wishes that world situations bloom with joy and peace. It is an ancient time imagination regarding heaven descending on earth and every sensitive intellectual desires that this dream becomes a reality. The vision of all those people of the world labeled rational full of apt understanding is focused on the world’s future. They imagine such a world where wars, mutual hatred, communal riots and overlooking of ethical values have no existence whatsoever. Third world countries are so immersed in their problems that they neither have the time nor means to think about the future. And yet stray efforts have been made by management systems and religious groups. But the western world has thought a lot about the future of the world. They have designed programs and have made efforts to give us all a glimpse of the year 2000 AD. From this it appears that if progress witnessed today moves rapidly ahead, what lies in store for us in future? This science is called Futurology in which on the basis of number calculations and available and possible statistics deep thinking is executed and this is a creation of mere 10 decades. Similar is the Science of Utopia wherein scientists make various imaginations. These are made on the basis of available tenets.

If rotting food items are kept safely even then it gets converted to poison. Available material comforts if misused pose dire problems later. Wealth based systems/institutions in which are included food management, population counting and health, production-consumer management and public management of energy resources and education, has its basis in planning. Lest its augmenting and apt use is not done in a farsighted manner, then these very material means/comforts by taking the form of demon Bhasmasur can destroy the entire world. Hence great seers and futurists time and again sit together try and mull over a Golden Era based on facts and statistical figures.

In the near past 3 renowned American thinkers who have written many books on the above topics met each other and on the basis of their studies, research and inferences opined that the future of the world is bright. American TV journalist Kelvin Sanders while directing a film called ‘Where is the world headed towards?’ came in direct contact with Dr Margaret Mead Herman Kohn and William Thomson. Their thoughtful cogitation published in the magazine ‘Spawn’ (April 1979) attracted the attention of highly intellectual class of the world. In reality all the thinking put forth by high intellectuals has so far been negative. Yet these 3 great seers and futurists have written many books high lighting the bright nature of the world’s future and have said that wealth systems are very much capable of changing their path. There exist in world those great thinkers who can imbue them with true thinking that by rising akin to a golden sun in the 3rd world countries in which India is also included so as to usher in a Golden Era in this world for all to see.

Dr Margaret Mead was also the chief of American Museum of Natural History, she had deeply studied Life Sciences and had also written best seller books like ‘Coming of an age’, ‘Culture and commitment’ and ‘A study of generation gap’. Mr. Herman Kohn was the director of Hudson Institute and till 2000 AD attained great fame the world over for authoring books like ‘Future 200 years’. The 3rd specialist of Futurology William Irwin Thomson has written books like ‘At the age of history’, ‘Darkness and scattered life’ and ‘Essays on future’. He has built a combined institution of leading philosophers, high stature intellectuals, artists and scientists whose goal is study of future world culture and its well defined designing.

According to Dr Margaret Mead although the modern world has had to face differences and tensions arising in culture, gender, generations and religious beliefs yet from the 3rd world countries shall arise a certain form of decentralized industrialization and a common dais of a single world culture that shall also guide the western world. According to her the future is not something that has not come into existence. In reality after entering the 21st century that generation which shall decide the world’s future has already taken birth. As a result a definite influence is being seen on this generation as far as our planning, thinking and suggestions regarding management is concerned. We just cannot obstruct this. The future generation shall not ape American glamour and instead after passing/getting heated through such peer pressure and tension shall look upon decentralization and a lifestyle that is nature oriented as their ideal.

In the past Dr Herman Kohn had traveled to India. According to him 20% people are in the modern part which is progressing rapidly, 40% are in the half modern part where bullock carts having rubber tires are made use of and in small villages there are tiny factories and the remaining 40% are heading towards progress. This is a good sign. When this country is compared to developing countries from the industrialization standpoint the conclusion is that the future of a semi industrialized nation like India is bright. Availability of various resources has reached great peaks. Today in western countries technology has been rendered destructive and attacking. In reality today’s world population just does not require materials made in large numbers using technology and in fact it requires that more and more people produce more and more goods so that a larger world population gets a chance to earn money for their household’s upkeep. In this manner he argues in favor of a Gandhi type economic outlook and opines that as per his calculation Indians are progressing aptly.

According to Herman Kohn the mistake made by 3rd world nations (half developed and developing ones) is that via its problems by not seeing facts are aping a western lifestyle. For such countries the values of the western world reign supreme and yet this situation shall no doubt change. In the world’s 30% extremely poor regions so much development shall take place that can be compared to the supreme times witnessed by people under Roman Rule.

According to Dr Thomson in future a thought stream will arise from the eastern world that shall have its roots not in abundance of food items and material comforts but it shall be based on the total revolution of human consciousness. From the viewpoint of evolution of human culture, from the standpoint of ideals and from the standpoint of the role played in the past for the entire world, India shall lead the world culture. While quoting Toynbee he says that, that prophecy wherein western nation’s materialism and eastern nation’s spiritualism shall work in tandem shall definitely come true. In future a culture that will have its basis both in eastern spirituality and western materialism shall develop in such a way that a supreme generous form of world culture shall usher in. he calls this ‘Pythagorean Synthesis’.

Just as in the arena of science since the past 3 decades extraordinary revolution has been noted, much more transformations shall usher in cultural and spiritual arenas. Such postulations have been made by Thomson based on contemporary world situations.

Amongst America’s leading economists, Linden, La Roche and others on the basis of computer oriented research infer that contemporary industrialization programs, apt use of atomic energy and from the standpoint of technical know-how due to greater number of high stature intellectuals India in the next 40 years shall become a Super Power and it will lead over USA and Russia too. In a certain way this is in agreement with what Herman Kohn has said. The title of this computer program was: “From 1980 to 2020 India’s industrialization which is lagging behind other countries today shall in 40 years get transformed to a well developed nation”. In the last week of August 1980 in an interview given to PTI (Press Trust of India) Mr. La Roche said that India’s future is bright and further opined that due to its cultural glory and spiritual lineage India has reached that stage wherein it can lead the world. None should doubt this despite us all noting political and economic upheavals at the moment (Statesman-September 8/1980).

By clarifying its main reason he says that from the technology based knowledge at the moment India is most proficient. Lest its intellectual skillful people spread their work arena in the entire country, lest in rural areas within the realm of available produce they make use of apt technology and render aid in obstructing wastage that results due to uncontrolled arrangements then not only India will take top spot amongst all world nations but that it will give true direction to the entire world.

It has been inferred that till the year 2020 India will have totally 2.3-2.4 billion laborers which shall exceed total number of laborers in America, Russia and East and West Europe. Lest even only 70% fertile land is irrigated then it can produce 10 billion tons grains per year. If this were to happen India shall become capable of supplying food grains to the entire world. This computerized study ushers in a ray of hope. But all this can only take place if we take note of those cautions that these economists have alluded to. They are total control over increasing population, deep thinking over aptness or lack of it regarding technology, making arrangements of augmenting literacy for a very large population and making arrangements of wholesome usage of a well directed group of intellectual technicians.

Man does err. Yet he is also known to rectify errors. In future a program shall usher in that helps us understand our errors and rectify the same. This is what is being said by future seers and astrologers too based on planetary calculations. The same is opined by futurologists and possibilities given by computerized research studies. Those great men shall perforce induce intellectuals to give up their materialistic atheistic attitude, who always incarnate during dire times witnessed in world history.

OUR COUNTRY INDIA SHALL BECOME THE CROWN JEWEL OF THE WORLD

Mr. Ross N Munro in a front page article of ‘Time’ magazine (3rd April, 1989) who accepts that India holds the 4th spot in the world after Russia, China and USA from the standpoint of weapon power writes that patriotism to the country, its glorious cultural heritage, deep seated roots of spirituality and radiant intellectual power of the group of scientists-thinkers definitely shall not only be rendered a great continent of the world but that also it shall become a Super Power. His observations are based on many facts which he has presented as proof in his article. He opines that India so far looked upon as a country of snakes/ascetics and mosquitoes/malaria was sleeping yet today this demon has arisen. Great saints born in the past 2 centuries has helped radiate consciousness of the public and from the standpoint of a population in excess of 8 billion the 2nd public power of the world in future via its activities shall usher in a people’s revolution. This indeed is most definite.

In actuality it is the intellectual class of the Western World that opines that India is emerging as a Super Power. They look upon India as the central focus of its hope of a bright world future. They say that the western world is undergoing a ‘Crisis of Ideas’. Lack of faith in ethical values has created such a complex situation they are asking themselves ‘what should be done and what not should be done’. Describing this in his book “The turning point” Fritjof Capra says as long as intellectuals and scientists do not wriggle themselves out of the spider’s net by taking guidance from easterners till then widespread thinking cannot spread out in world society.

The root cause of our cultural crisis is that those who are our leaders have no solutions to problems arising when an era changes. He says that today the entire human race is standing at that point akin to ebb and flow of tides where the future has to be decided upon. This point of transformation in Chinese Culture is called ‘bayanji’. It means that situations created regarding fearful dangers and also opportunities of change. Thus in this word dwells both the dark gloom of era junction time span and the golden sunrise of a New Era. Dr Capra opines that western socialists now accept that today the entire world has entered a phase of era junction period. In the initial phase augmenting of psychiatric diseases, situation of war frenzy, increase in terrorism, social disintegration etc face us arrogantly yet in the final phase the future generation of peace bestowing great men promise us all that whatever distortions seen now are transient in nature. The rapid nature of transformation tells us that the 21st century is harbingering in with a radiant future and in its dawn India shall play a major role. Those who understand the subtle inspiration embedded in the root of Dr Capra’s deep thinking shall not challenge the above observations of his.