Satyam Shivam Sundaram is the Hindu
description of truth. Truth is God and He is beautiful. The only truth in
knowledge is God because He is unborn and unending, the indestructible reality
which forms the foundation on which all else in the cosmos is situated. Rest is
myth or Maya, which appears to exist but never does. All such things that are
born to die for an enlightened Hindu are untruth subject to the permanent law
of impermanence. Since truth, if it is so once established, cannot become an
untruth and assumes an indestructible permanence. It is in the revelation of
such enlightenment that a Hindu expresses his joy and says “Satyam, Shivam,
Sundaram,” meaning truth is God, which is beautiful. A truth about the Prime
Minister which now stands revealed is one such beauty irrespective of
disagreements which one might have with him.
The Prime minister of this big nation
and emerging economy has savings which matches with the lowest income groups of
this nation. The deposit in his savings account is some four thousand rupees
and has some postal deposits bringing his total net worth to roughly a little
over a crore which includes a house that he had purchased in Gujarat in 2002.
This is the picture of a leader thrice chief
minister of the prosperous state of Gujarat and now the Prime minister of the
nation seeking to bring smile on the face of the miserable. His wife commutes
on an auto rickshaw and there appears no change in the life styles of the
members of his extended family. Compare this with the income and assets of neo
nobility that has emerged as a ubiquitous reality in the democracy that is
India. Next to the businessmen who are owners of fortune companies are the political
nobles representing “the corrupt India,” who now seem frustrated by the manner
in which Modi sticks to his commitment on intolerance of corruption despite
some reported financial misconduct of his ministers who by their acts weaken
him and still some others who in their private meetings make no secret of their
displeasure with the culture he now cultivates aggressively, bringing glumness
to the faces of his own, who each day moan at the opportunities lost.
Look at the declaration of this Prime
minister which is inspiring for every lover of this nation and though I as a
citizen of this nation differ ideologically with him has to be respectful of
the truth that touches. Look at the possessions of this Prime minister. His
cash in hand is Rs 4700 at the end of last fiscal down from Rs 38,700 disclosed
mid-fiscal March 31, 2015. He owns no
personal motor vehicle, retains exiting bank accounts in Gujarat and has no new
account in Delhi and has four gold rings. His investments include L&T Infra
Bonds worth Rs 20000 and National Savings Certificates worth about Rupees 5.45
lakh, life insurance policies worth Rupees 1.99 lakhs. His immovable asset is a
3531.45 square feet plot with a 169.81 square feet built-up area. The current
value of this property now stands at a crore.
These declared figures of a tea vendor,
thrice chief minister of Gujarat and now the Prime Minister of India; reminds one of the advice Krishna to his
Friend Arjun,"let not “Dhansangrah” pecuniary possessions be your mission in
life, indulge in “Loksangrah” possessor of a following and this you can achieve
by setting standards of high moral conduct.
This Arjun; Modi, now in this enactment of the
Mahabharata appears to live by that advice of Krishna and perhaps that reveals
why his most valuable gift to world leaders is “The Bhagwat Gita.”
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