Mar 12, 2018, 14:13 IST

The path to my Spirituality indeed goes through some difficult and rough topics !

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I recently had the privilege to meet Avishek Lodha near his iconic Trump Tower. Looking at the stunning, mesmerizing height and beauty of the building I bluntly asked a rhetoric, "Who made this ?" to make it seem like so I also gave naive expressions, he fell for it and foolishly answered my question that was not supposed to be answered "It is us we, all the in charges, supervisors, overseers and all the other team members at the Lodha Group in collaboration with and under guidance, directives and instructions of the current PM of USA, Mr Donald Trump Sr." "and all the unnamed workers who risked their lives" I added. He gave me an offensive look like I was some kind of a labor union leader or agitation worker or something. His cold, fierce stare and look asked me "What do you want ? What are you worth to tell me that ? Abhi dekhata hu teri aukaat" .... Like wow, he was further motivated by the philosophy, or rather the practical reality of life that all the movements, that be it humanitarian movement or the labor movements, at the core they are run and led by corruptible fallible people, who would stop these so-called agitations and disturbances or 'Unionbaazi' as it is called in India with the bribes in form of company of bitches, whores and loose girls in a 5 star suite along with rare bottles of champagne and cool crores in hard cash or direct payments to the bank accounts of choice .... Or if the person, or rather the agitator is a weakling and not politically connected at all, then manhandle, shove and assault by personal bodyguards would do.... Or if the person is a believer in debating.... He would go like this "Why come to point at me, how are the other builders any different, just cause I am at the top you see a gold-digging opportunity ?" This is a pure classic example of how a situation is unnecessarily escalated. They question your motives when they don't know what you are motivated by. Loose girls, expensive whores, and bottles of champagne and hard cash being like the common denominator that reduces all men to their 'aukaats'. Hey God forsake me if that is the case, but I only came to tell you that "I am a kind of idealist and it would do you no harm if you include the names of those workers who made the toughest sacrifice of risking their lives in the construction of this project. And as a matter of fact, it would increase only your goodwill for being so thoughtful. Yes, I understand the practical aspects of including all those names that they are too many, but yeah their names can be enshrined in small font on the ground floor of these massive structures. As they say, 'If their's a will, there's a way!'. If you are willing to give credit to and show gratitude for... yes, then obviously theirs a way or you can just enshrine a brief note saying that 'thanks to all the workers who made this dream possible in their silent labour and strife so difficult and tough in as much as an extent to risking their lives' Yes at the first glance, these home buyers would not like that because generally, people like beautiful lies than ugly truths but you can set a benchmark and the people's nature of embracing the sugar-coated half-truths is the benchmark already set by previous companies. So yes, in a way it is so true that, "The world is what you make of it" And the world becomes so ... A worker only willing to slog and sell his / her entire life for a few shillings just by the virtue (or sin) of taking birth in poverty is consoled and instructed by mind-control cults in this manner - creating the speculative concept and taking refuge in the Hindu concept of reincarnation that "we all are born and assigned our duty and work according to our past lives karmas" which actually does more harm than good to them. It's a silencer of sorts ! So that the poor fellows just shut their mouths, bow down their heads and go to work. It is aimed at avoiding labour uprisings and then milking them. For, I would go with and create a new economic theory that 'the working labour class is a fat cow, able to be milked for years and ages to come, IF CONTROLLED ... " In a world getting devastated by growth and capitalistic, selfish ideals as the only virtues and its useless opposition known as 'socialism' which only acts as a polarization tool, we can only see the death of humanity and also the death of all kinds of so-called 'dharmas' and previously established 'dharmas' everywhere. What is the use of laws if it can bend over backwards to protect the interests of the capitalists and the rich elite class. What is the effectiveness of law when an illiterate is hence, ignorant of all / many of them in their favour and does not even know when his / her right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness is sneaked away from under his / her nose. It is the law of the educated, the law of the jungle wherein an educated person only takes advantage of his / her education to fill their pockets and live a life of luxary. Wherein a union leader can stand up with falsified hopes to these workers and begin with maligned intentions from the start to strike a deal and dig some gold / diamonds for themselves at the behest and cost of the poor workers who don't even know that they have been betrayed and hands shaken, money - exchanged, money changing hands.... What is use the use of even waiting for someone who would be different ? It's like rolling the dice for mercy when mercy is all you deserve, everyone deserves. But, no. Apparently, in this corrupt business-politico system, the rich class, the elite class, the creamy layer of the society do deserve more mercy than the rest and the finer things to go along with it. It reminds me of a quote from George Orwell's 'Animal Farms' - "All animals are equal but some are more equal."

I have used Lodha only as a convenient, notional (and fictional) example to go with my compelling, convincing style because those who actually slog for making these superstructures don't get their names mentioned anywhere (talk about social justice ?), thanks to the folly and fallacy of the world labour-market based on the fake premise and false assumption that 'human labour is readily available based on the market forces of supply and demand and it's price and valuation is determined as such and nothing beyond that', in the process paying no heed to a human life and its complete disregard for poor souls. It's just the effect of a print media creating an inhuman world in the process sometimes praising capitalistic ideals and other times praising socialistic ideals but all the while ignoring the bleak inhuman reality staring in the face. Sometimes its the left-wing politics at other times, it is the right-wing politics, while the rank injustice of the both the systems is never highlighted and as such, it never finds its way to the surface. In this system, people with the maximum sacrifices and losses are never heard from, for they are weaklings and at other times, dead men and women tell no tales ! Everyone knows the example of Taj Mahal, how 20,000 workers were amputated and killed by Shah Jahan. What psycho kind of dark souls and their names go down and have been recorded in history when they are not even worth a mention. When these kinda people are made to be historical figures with the monuments that were not their creation or even inspired / motivated with an iota of love in the first place, then it only aims to make this world a really psychotic place. Taj Mahal should be razed, demolished and brought down than termed as a 'wonder of the world' or even a 'monument' or it should be renamed, called and known as the 'Psychotic demented wonder of the world !' . It requires a person with an intact moral compass. A person with a weak moral compass would not understand this and may say that I am talking bullshit. I can understand ! With all due regards, we may not be on the same frequency. But with a message that - "For a change, let's aspire to create happiness for those who have been building our homes since centuries and let them shed a tear or two of happiness in the hope that they are credited for their creations of their rough bruised hands and scraped fingernails when they see their names in a miniature font at the lobby upon completion of the structure under the credit section (when the same is already being done as end credits at the end of all bollywood and hollywood movies), or even a general note of thanks and credit for all of them in our national language. Let's set a trend. Let's set this trend which appeals to our most basic humanity and human nature and all that it means to be human. It goes for all builders, everywhere, across the world !"

P.S - I am my own critic ! The only problem with my writing is that I take no prisoners and directly attack at the core of the problem, strike at the heart of the matters, the root of the matter. It would be agitating and disturbing for some but hey, that's not my problem ! A totally unapologetic author that, I am. I make no apologies for that. I am who I am, what I am, what I do, what I think, how I think, what I write... For death is common to all. My deepest thoughts better shared with one and all, rather than done and dusted away with on my deathbed. For I believe, that my deepest thoughts and feelings would help create a better world even when I am not lingering around.

If a person believes - Money is the end all . Nope, your grave is the end all ! All you really have on this planet is the time remaining until your grave, until your deathbed. And nobody, really knows the 'when' that's gonna happen, so try and live as best as we can !

And lastly, this article is written on account of hope and in view that it starts a trend of humanity.

Sometimes we have to explore the generally accepted norms, notions and established theories, and question and challenge them for the sake of difficult truths no matter how uncomfortable it makes a person (the reader) or me (the seeker), for that matter.

Hope to bring some sense to the world ! It can only happen when we begin to take into account and view things beyond the materialistic nature (our collective materialistic nature) or even begin to come to terms with our own mortality, on an individual level ! This will help to clean out the global mess of inhumanity, indignity and injustice in world torn with sorrow and strife !

A person cannot flourish on an individual level without his / her spirituality and,

The madness of the world cannot go on with all its intellect, intelligence gathering, resources and technological advancements without wars and strife,

Sooner than later, humanity must come to terms with spirituality through acceptance that money and material blessings are just that - comforts while on your brief stay on Planet Earth !

Nobody gets to take any of it to their graves.... So why not be good and do good rather than be mean and cruel ?

Lastly, there's no 'Dignity of Labour'. 'Dignity of Labour' was a false concept and precept meant to control labour and the working classes. Whoever started it, propagated it, was a capitalistic mistress and it got famous, propagated by the world mass-media promoting capitalistic ideals to keep the labour and the working classes ignorant in bliss, while the rich vile away on account of the sweat and blood of those labourers and workers. Also in some countries, the concept of slave, coolie, indentured labours flourished on account of tyranny and mass propaganda, making them a banana republic (All those talks about humanity and social justice ??). And so happened and still happens the violent and aggressive death of humanity and violation of constitutional rights (talk about spirituality ? talk about love ? where is the love ?) Nothing has changed much, saying that 'the world is now moving towards spirituality' does not really change anything, it's just used as a consolation ! Real spirituality happens only through the practice of humanity in all walks of life with integrity. Compartmentalizing life into various innumerable aspects, i.e. keeping them separate from each other will lead to loss of spiritual integrity, more often than not. That's where thought clarity through intuitional clarity, logic and thinking (i.e. thinking from the heart) steps in, if one aims to bring any significant change in the world. Will end this by a beautiful quote and saying - "If hardwork was such a wonderful thing, rich people would have kept it to themselves."

Thanks !!

- Anuj Chugh

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