ETHICS AND VALUES !!

" Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of values"                                                                                        - Albert Einstein  

The moral values in life hold a great importance from the point of personal, social and spiritual development. values, morals and ethics are inextricably tied together. Values are what we learn from childhood the stuff we acquired from our parents and immediate surrounding. Values are the motive power behind purposeful action. Moral values are meant for making the meant to find the higher self an easier. Unfortunately, many amongst us may find it difficult to follow rules and values such as truthfulness, honesty, forgiveness in our lives because we have not perceived the subtle gains that comes to us by following these values. Ethics are the cods or principles on which one character depend. Ethics and character are closely related. Values are essential to ethics develop at an early age and can be instrumental to building character. 

Russell W. Gough, author of book titled : Character Is Destiny, describes the steps to personal growth from examining our lives to taking responsibilities for our actions from discarding selfishness to embracing the greater good, from becoming a better role model for our loved ones to finding the courage to do the right thing naturally and consistently. By cultivating  the habits of virtue, we will strengthen not only ourselves but, more important, our family and our world. 


" The preservation of human life is the ultimate value, a pillar of ethics and the foundation of all morality "
            
We Indians are very religious and we lavishly spend on religious celebrations and pray for our well being. but we rarely bother for ethics without which we cannot move even an inch towards true religion or get any favour from God. In daily life, we conveniently forget the real spirit of religion and work for petty personal gains.

Those who are false within and honorable on the outside are very commo0n in this worl. Even though they may bathe at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage still their faith does not depart. Those who have silk on the inside and rags on the outside are the good ones in the world. They embrace love for Akal Purkh and contemplate beholding it - Guru Nanak 

In India majority of us have lost faith in our religious leader so called professionals gurus who are only after gaining prominence and luxurious living without divine realization. Should we lose faith in ourselves also and be carried away by the stream of unethical practises  or stand upright ?
We ought not to forget that unselfishness, honesty and humanity are more paying regarding contentment and spiritual fulfilment. If we follow this path that represents the true sprit of any religion, then we can serve our nation in a better way...! 

 Believe me with adequate integrity, sincerity, devotion to duty and humanity we can improve our community as well as our quality of life. I can say that when we live our lives according to moral values that are based on honesty, compassion, courage, modesty and forgiveness the we can also form positive bonds with other people..!