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Perspective
The Necessity of Ambition
by TA Ramesh
Driving Force of Life
 Some
ambition is essential for everyone to live well in life. Without
ambition life will be boring, monotonous and uninteresting in the world.
So, ambition is a necessity for survival, sustenance and success in the
life of the world. May be ambition drives some mad, but it helps some to
achieve success in their goals or rather ambition helps one achieve
perfection in life. Therefore what kind of ambition is necessary is the
thing one has to see depending upon one’s heredity and environment or
nature and nurture to do best and beautiful things in the world rather
than make it hell for everyone to live. Why?
Ambition is the driving force in life, despite no facility, no help and
no aid to make great achievements possible in the world. Here living is
not enough; something has to be achieved to make one’s life interesting
or make interesting things, worthy things, best things and noble things
known to the world. Then only the feeling that life will not be worth
living in the world today full of violence, wars and terrorism or the
materialistic world, where there is no room for human values, does not
arise.
What kind of Ambition is Necessary?
Danger to the peace and security of the human world lies in the
unchecked activities of the ambitionists going by their desires or
imaginations but not by their reasonable thoughts, knowledge, best
interests, good nature and so on. There are persons with ambition for
materialistic developments only. There are people having ambition for
intellectual development. Also there are men having ambition for
spiritual development. So, ambition for integrated development or all
round development can make one a complete human being, which is the aim
of human culture desirable and necessary for the well being of the
world.
But ambition based on one-sidedness, selfishness or extremist desire or
imagination is abnormal, unnatural and undesirable for human society in
the world. Therefore ambition is necessary, but good ambition only can
give satisfaction, peace and happiness in life; otherwise, undesirable
ambition can lead one only to madness and utter failure, which would be
harmful to the healthy functioning of the society anywhere in the world
whether it is in the realm of politics or science, religion or
philosophy, business or economy and technology or industry.
Healthy Human Ambition Needed
Now economic development is the main aim for all the nations of the
world. Economic development without social thought has given much
importance only to materialism in the world today. It is wrongly
believed that the security of man lies in wealth and physical strength
only leaving aside the intellectual and spiritual aspects of human life
in the world. So, nations with such men rely upon economic and military
strength only which have triggered so much suspicion, competition and
hatred leading to domination, violence and wars often that peace,
security and development of other nations are ever threatened in the
world.
That is the main crisis, peace loving nations are finding it hard to
overcome in the world not only in the past but also in the present and
perhaps in the future as well. This sorry state of affairs of the world
is caused by the rivalry between the capitalist and socialist
ambitionists only. So, not only for the individuals but also for the
nations healthy human ambition is absolutely necessary so that real
peace, prosperity and progress can be achieved for everyone in the
world.
One Human World Ambition
The ambition of the peace loving intellectuals from time immemorial is
the creation of One Human World of love, friendship, justice, individual
liberty and rights without minding the differences of color, creed,
class, race, religion, region and language. This kind of one human world
though look to be an ideal society or Utopia, can be formed by unity in
diversity governed by the principles of democracy having common laws for
the whole world, one language for communication purpose and a common
security force for the protection of the people.
In the education of the children as well as in higher education there
will be common curriculum for all covering all the subjects like
religion, philosophy, arts, literature, science, technology, commerce,
agriculture, industries, management and information technology. Students
can select course of study in education of their own choice. After
education individuals can do the jobs they like anywhere in the world
and live as they desire as there will be one world democratic government
ruling the people.
There will be free exchange of ideas as far as medicine, science and
technology are concerned. Innovative ideas and entrepreneurial
activities of individuals in arts and science will be given preference
and encouraged everywhere. In all the fields of human endeavor
individuals with broad mind and excellent ideas would be given
opportunities to experiment and discover new truths in various fields
and invent or create new things good, beneficial and useful for the
society. Developments in all fields will be based on the joint ventures
of brilliant individuals. Benefits of human endeavor will be shared by
all and everything will be provided to everyone. By providing food,
cloth, shelter, education and employment to everyone social justice will
be achieved in this kind of world society.
Globalization towards One World Government
Certainly globalization of economy of nations is a positive trend
towards the formation of a new world order in the due course of time,
though there is opposition from the World Social Forum on the ground
that it is helping the rich entrepreneurs but not the small scale
industrialists and poor agriculturalists who are in large numbers. By
corrective measures the internal problems can be solved as time passes
on by the individual nations with the global ambition in their minds.
Another positive trend is the formation of world unions like the
European Union, African Union, Association of South East Asian Nations
and the group of eight advanced countries of the world, G-8 addressing
world problems in their agenda and taking positive steps to solve them
by joint ventures.
In the due course of time there is no doubt that these international
unions will lead to the formation of One World Union which would be the
final step towards the creation of One World Government as is being
dreamt by many futuristic intellectuals yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Globalization of economy is just one item in the world agenda. Perhaps
as time passes on globalization of education, culture, society and
politics could also be included in the world list boosted by the
international economic development and thereby the creation of One Human
World will be materialized according to the dream or ambition of peace
loving, futuristic individuals of the world.
Over all Vision Necessary
With this kind of thinking by everyone accompanied by the cooperation
and coordinated actions with world ambition in mind many world dreams
can be made realities encouraged by positive ideas and sincere efforts
from all quarters of the world. So, to implement such a broad idea, each
individual should have some broad and good ambition with the vision of
future world in mind instead of confining their thoughts only on their
nation or their individual self only. As the formation of one bright
future human world is not going to take a long time, every sincere
individual is not needed to suffer for the drudgery or the monotony of
life today. With an appropriate ambition based on experience, knowledge
and vision, one can overcome the hardships of life in the world. But
ambition based on one-sidedness, selfishness and imaginary desires would
be harmful to the society and contrary to the dream of the future world.
From experience, reading and observation we gain knowledge. As time goes
on experience, knowledge and conviction give us wisdom, which is
necessary to decide about matters. Above all, vision of the over all
matters, everything concerning one’s nature, world, nature and Universal
Spirit as a whole is necessary so that what is the purpose of one’s
life, what one is interested and capable and how can do things in order
to fulfill the mission of one’s life in the world can become clear to
one. Then the ambition of one would be accomplishing that mission or
achieving that in the world, which would make everything interesting in
life and would make one achieve all matters according to one’s plan with
complete success. That is the way everyone has to live in the world and
achieve something remarkable according to one’s full capacity in some
field like art, literature, information technology, agriculture,
politics and so on not only for the present world but also for the
future of mankind.
July 23,
2006
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