In the history of present common masses of this century will be remembered as "faulty generations" who happen to resemble the famous story of Kalidas who was cutting the branch of the tree on which he was sitting. Allowing themselves to become toolkit in the hands of despots and demagogues the masses have been forfeiting themselves to rich-power elites who in turn use these toolkits against them. This is not India specific phenomenon, rather throughout the democratic world same situation is prevailing. After a long long history common man could find some dignity in the system with the advent of democracy. Anyone who has any doubt may take a crash course in history where he/she will easily find that after lapse of primitive era, when the concept of private property started emerging common man started losing dignity. Gradually the history passed through different eras of economic production systems and corresponding socio-political arrangements and in each step common man lost his/her share of divinity to the power-rich elite. In the process common man continued to become more and more useful tool for power-rich elite. Marx defined this dichotomy as "haves and have-nots". But when the production system started becoming free from human manual labour common man could find space to fight for their own magna-carta and ultimately became successful in achieving the same after so many revolutions and struggles, but power-rich elites have never accepted the defeat at the hands of common masses and so they continued their efforts to push the common masses to their "original" place with no dignity. This , they did by various means , among which the strongest has been the process of monopolization of intellectual property and infantalization of common masses. The entire technological production system which major share is in the clutch of the power-elites has been being used to overpower common masses by convincing them that they should not bother about their fortunes as this power-rich elites are here to stay to provide safeguard to the interests of the comman masses in the form of "Guardians of common masses' religious , ethnic, linguistic , gender and above all national identity". The common masses started believing in them and started surrendering their historically hard earned dignity to these rich power elites and taking refuse to ignominy in the dark caves of future's history. Democracy is going to wander in these dark caves . Modis, Trumps, Putins, Erdogons, etc are Chariots of this journey. If we really aspire for democracy we will have to revisit the history from the days of 15 th century onward to realize the price of democracy.
गीता अध्याय 2 श्लोक 47 ----------------------------------- कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन। मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भुर्मा ते संगोऽस्त्वकर्मणि॥ तेरा कर्म करने में ही अधिकार है, उसके फलों में कभी नहीं। इसलिए तू कर्मों के फल हेतु मत हो तथा तेरी कर्म न करने में भी आसक्ति न हो ॥47॥ कर्मपथ की सावधानियों और विशेषताओं को बताते हुए श्रीकृष्ण इस पथ के सम्बंध में समझाये हैं कि अन्तिम लक्ष्य तो साँख्य बुद्धि को प्राप्त करना है लेकिन उस तक पहुंचने का मार्ग योग है, कर्मपथ है। इस पथ को ध्यान पूर्वक समझना और उसका अभ्यास करना बहुत जरूरी है तभी हम साँख्य और उसके पश्चात परमब्रह्म को प्राप्त कर सकते हैं। इसके अतिरिक्त कोई और रास्ता नहीं है जो हमारेके कल्याण का मार्ग प्रशस्त कर सके। श्रीकृष्ण समझते हुए कहते हैं कि कर्म ही वो मार्ग है जिसपर हम चलकर के परम नैष्कर्म्य की स्थिति तक पहुँच सकते हैं लेकिन जब हम कर्म करते हैं तो उस कर्म की विशेषता और सावधानियों को समझना अनिवार्य है अन्यथा हम कर्मपथ से भटक जाते हैं। ये विशेषताएँ और सावधानियाँ निम्नवत हैं----- 1....