----- P.K. Bandyopadhyay, Former Principal.
Greed, greed and greed! The world is in the grip of greed. Greed for money, greed for power, lust for sex and obsession for cheap fame. So newspaper pages are full of stories of greed. Businessmen,
politicians, civil servants, legal luminaries, sportsmen, god men, medical practitioners, --- none is
immune from greed today. No profession, no discipline seems to be above this chronic disease with
dangerous prognosis for humanity.
Why not ask yourself then, what is morality? Morality is one’s respect for right principles and right
values of one’s time and societies.
Human beings are essentially Divine, say saints. They get corrupted by greed. Now how to destroy
greed? Sensitize your conscience and enrich your soul by reading lives and thoughts of Mahatma
Gandhi, Tilak, Buddha, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Swami Vivekananda and others like them. Remember, greed is a very powerful instinct, a dangerous enemy. Only an equally or more powerful sense of morality can destroy it. So worship morality like an ardent devotee. Otherwise we will all be destroyed by our greed.
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