Swadeshi: The Greatest Vow of this Age
By Radha Bhatt
Gandhi
called swadeshi as swadeshi dharma. It was an integral part of his eleven vows.
He described it as the greatest vow of the age. Therefore, to look at this
revolutionary human value merely as an instrument to overcome the present state
of economic crisis is not only unfair but also to lose its real strength.
In fact, economy is not so an important aspect of human existence as
it is being made out today. Material achievement is nothing more than a means
in the context of wholesome life of man. It can never become an end or the
purpose of human existence. Therefore, any economic system which takes the
creation of wealth as an end in itself could never achieve a solid foundation.
We have to understand the intricacies of present worldwide economic crisis. We
can easily see that the greatest weakness of the present thinking is that we
have made consumerism as the primary aim of our life. A country like ours with
its ancient culture had had an entirely different view of material wealth. For
us the real wealth comprised of air, water, nature, land, ether etc. It meant
that all those resources which were needed for the sustenance of human life
actually constituted the real wealth.
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