अयोध्या

 हम  माता सीता और प्रभु राम की सनातन प्रजा हैं। अयोध्या नगरी प्रभु की राजधानी है। श्रीराम अपनी जन्मस्थली पर  नवनिर्मित  मंदिर में विराज कर हमें कृतार्थ करेंगे। हम भी संकल्प लें कि हम बनाएंगे अयोध्या को विश्व की श्रेष्ठतम नगरी और वैश्विक सभ्यता का केंद्र । अयोध्या  मानव जाति के उत्कर्ष और कष्टनिवारण का केंद्र बने, ऐसी योजना का कार्यान्वयन हो। विश्व धर्ममय हो, यह हमारा दायित्व है; अयोध्या इसकी धुरी होगी, तो यह शीघ्र संभव है। 

नीरज कुमार झा 

Work for Being Human

 Working for longer hours and working more productively are related issues but not the same. It is better that people work longer and more productively. They merit even separately. 

Working is in fact redeeming one's humanity. It is by working we advance from a being to a human being, from barbarism to civilization. Basically, what we mean by work is service to others. This is how we become a society, civilization, and humanity.  The more we work, the better we get. Self-indulgence is secondary and is just a break to realise ultimately it is work that gives meaning to our life and brings fulfilment.

Being drained out while working is the most satisfying thing to get into. The problem is that we do not have satisfying jobs or we do not like the jobs we do and we begin our work feeling drained. This is tragic. 

The basic problem is that many people do not have any work to do, even if they may be employed. And if they have a job, the problem is not about the time one spends on a particular work but of organisation and culture. We may be valuing jobs one over another and doing a job not in a likeable way. It is a problem of collective norms and know-how. 

Niraj Kumar Jha 

Oṃ Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaḥ

Liberalism functions as capitalism in the economic domain and republicanism in the political domain. Liberalism, as per the human inclination it manifests, is not typically ideological in its nature but is about humanism, the perseverance of human beings to become human. It is about the dignity of each human being and the full flowering of their persons. Liberalism is the discovery of Dharma by the West, which made them modern and brought the modern age to the world.

Humanism is the core of Liberalism. It means all value one and get that one centre stage. This is to properize being.

Proper knowledge systems must home to this properization of being human. It means epistemology must cohere with capitalism and republicanism, which seek human beings to evolve from herds and sovereignly use their own faculty and agency while respecting the similar rights of others.  It is about the age-old wisdom of living and letting others live.

It is the most challenging task to work with people's consciousness. The scope of working human consciousness is about epistemology. It is epistemology, which shapes human consciousness and becomes consciousness. Epistemology gets anatomical. It becomes one's mental eyes with which one sees the world. It is almost impossible to navigate one's deviant consciousness to course. But, it is not entirely a hopeless scenario either. 

Let us work for the essential human spirit: let us translate this prayer into reality. 

ॐ सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः
सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः ।
सर्वे भद्राणि पश्यन्तु
मा कश्चिद्दुःखभाग्भवेत् ।
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः॥

May all sentient beings be at peace,
may no one suffer from illness,
May all see what is auspicious, may no one suffer.
Om peace, peace, peace.

Niraj Kumar Jha 

On History of Rationality

Thinking and acting rationally is a very late historical development if we see humanity as a whole. Surprisingly, the ancient world, particularly India and Greece and maybe others, had such an approach, though contested by other approaches. Presently, this is how humanity brought humanism and modernity to itself; but this is still evolving, and struggling in many pockets of the world and of any culture. 

It is not that reason has been missing in any age but it rarely commanded the centerstage or remained sustainably there. Traditions and affectiveness still remain dominant in human minds, and reason finds itself at the receiving end. The persisting reality, the highlight of this post, is this: the primal instincts have always, throughout history, appropriated reason for their own ends. 

Niraj Kumar Jha 

Talk Well

Talking well gets wellness.
Talking positivity promotes positivity.
Logical articulations, even in casual conversations, promote general rationality and science.
Always speak well and be a good human being and responsible citizen.
This is how you can contribute by simply being.

 
Niraj Kumar Jha

Educating Health

The ancient Nalanda University had a mandatory course on health and medicine in their graduation programme. This was solid wisdom. Personally, being educated has no meaning if a person does not how to be healthy and what to do in case they fall ill or face an emergency. Otherwise, too, healthy people boost the health of the commonwealth. How to be healthy, physically and mentally, and what to do in medical emergencies must be a part of school education and be mandatory to earn credits for the graduation programme. In other words, personal health management and basic medicinal awareness must be a basic part of education.

General health and medical facilities should also be one of the main focuses for associational entities. Health security must be brought to be a prime rationale of and core mandate for the State.

Niraj Kumar Jha

सामाजिक मीडिया

सामाजिक मीडिया लोकशिक्षण के प्रभावशाली माध्यम एवं मंच के रूप में स्थापित हो चुका है। हालाँकि इसके अंतर्वस्तु प्रदाताओं में विभिन्न अभिकरण सम्मिलित हैं लेकिन इसका विशिष्ट पक्ष यह है कि इसमें बड़ी संख्या में लोग  व्यष्टि रूप में सम्मिलित हैं। यह एक शक्तिशाली जनतांत्रिक मंच है।

जहाँ तक शिक्षण का प्रश्न है, सामाजिक मीडिया आबालवृद्ध के मानस को गढ़ रहा है। यह ज्ञानियों और ज्ञानमीमांसकों के लिए अद्भुत अवसर है। पहली बार उन्हें इतने व्यापक रूप से सामान्य जन उनके सम्मुख श्रोता सह पाठक के रूप उपास्थित हैं और जिनसे वे संवाद भी कर सकते हैं। यह सच्चे विद्वानों के लिए गोलबंद प्रवंचकों से भी पार पाने का अवसर देता है।

 
प्रायोजित गोष्ठियों और बंधे पत्र-पत्रिकाओं एवं स्टूडियो से स्वतंत्र एवं इच्छानुकूल सम्प्रेषण के लिए सुविधा अत्यंत सीमित थी। सामाजिक मीडिया यह सुविधा सभी को निरंतर और स्थायी रूप से देता है। कुशल जनहितैषी विद्वान इस मंच पर विमर्श कर मानवता की भलाई के लिए अपना योगदान प्रभावी रूप से दे सकते हैं।

नीरज कुमार झा