The Macaulay stamp of mental slavery is distinct and complete on our bureaucracy; he wanted to give English education to Indians to produce clerks, not to educate them, and he succeeded well in his enterprise. Not too long ago we had another absurdity, why laptops should not be given to the students in the schools, showing continuance of the colonial mind-set in the central school seated in New Delhi. And imagine brazenness of the politicised reservations! The conundrum is of the awakened India in strange contrast with the India fallen disreputably in many ways and gone astray in the manner of a soul-lost sleep-walker of the dark night of tamas. The problem is yet deeper. If bureaucracy is a heart made of log and a mind of clay, and if the political leadership walks around like the famous ‘headless chickens’, then we have the colonial past to blame for it. But the greater tragedy is, similar things pervade in our religious and spiritual institutions. Will it not be disheartening, rather despicable, if they get caught in the clutches of lawsuit and litigation, which could be for right reasons or could be wrong reasons, all in the name of promotion of ethics and morality and values of the aspiring and manifesting spirit? The institutional soul gets buried beneath the incompetence of the powers that be, and there is the decline, glāni, which only becomes the first crumbling sign of decay and disappearance. This is not a very pleasing scenario and should be a matter of concern.

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