ANNA HAZARE : DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR

We witnessed the phenomenon of the indefinite fasting till death by Shri Anna Hazare and millions of people from all walks of life, from all age groups and from all over India and also many places abroad; supporting and/or joining him in one way or another.

It is certainly not because of physical strength, youth, looks, race and religion. It is also not caste, sex appeal or element of entertainment. It is not formal education, some specific art or anything of that sort. It is not at all the glamour of wealth or force of political power.

Of course there are many people, who have their reservations.
They don�t think the problem of corruption would be solved by fasts and processions.

It is certainly true that corruption is a vast deep rooted phenomenon. Corruption of perspective, thinking, policy making, plans, programs and their implementation; needs holistic approach and multipronged solutions in all the fields of life such as health, education, agriculture and laws.

However; in spite of the short comings; the most important single virtue in Shri Anna Hazare appears to be his loyalty to his conscience. Even as we cannot get all the solutions from any single person; including Anna Hazare; if we are inspired by him, then, what should we do?

We should try to explore our conscience and be loyal to it. The time tested way (preached by most religions and saints of the world; including Mahatma Gandhi; but ignored or neglected by many of us) of exploring our conscience and being loyal to it; is; NAMASMARAN. However; this cannot be debated beyond a certain point and hence has to be verified by practice.