Why We Should Not Allow the Fate Theory to Influence Us
In many parts of the world, there is this one theory of all that happens around us: whatever happens to anyone, anywhere is already decided and is bound to happen. This is very wrong, and needs to be corrected. This is an attempt to present some viewpoints on this theory.
India is a very ancient land, and the Hindu scriptures that still influence norms and values among millions in this country, have travelled around the world. In several countries, countless scholars have found very rich treasures of knowledge that can translate into very useful and meaningful messages to anyone, anywhere in the world. This has become very relevant, particularly in today’s conditions, when terrorism has raised its ugly head in many parts of the world.
Be that as it may, there are certain messages from the very same scriptures that have indeed had some negative influence on the psyche of an average Indian. These beliefs have been spread in other parts of the world as well
The Theory of Fate is one such: whatever will happen, will happen. Everything like terrorism, global warming, earthquakes, floods, corruption, religious dogmatism, violence, and what have you — are all bound to happen, since it is just “fate”.
This theory is fundamentally flawed. Imagine a world in which we do nothing about every other thing that is so harmful, and yet blame “fate”. This is a very dangerous interpretation.
Human effort is so crucial, to change the lives of billions of people around the world. Certain events have happened in this world, and these events are the result of a collective consciousness, that has come out of a much deeper thinking and action. Let us embrace the fundamental messages of these events and try to understand how these messages can translate into further action that is very good for all times to come, instead of blaming everything on fate.
Let us take two big ticket events for example. The first pertains to the quality revolution in Japan, which was lead by an American, who was not even recognised in his own country — Dr Deming. This quality Guru, taught the Japanese several principles of Quality, which quickly transformed the entire nature of Japanese goods around the world. The concept of zero defects was born out of such a huge paradigm shift.
This paradigm shift brought along with it, several things that were never thought of as important in America. A discipline of quality that pervades the entire business, is very much based on methodology, on systems and processes and standardization. This attempt at making superb quality products simply made the Japanese far superior to the Americans in the biggest capitalist country in the world : the USA.
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