of the society to provide me with bread. I am obliged to the society for my existence: society is not obliged to me. I need society for my very existence.
Many people want Jobs, and they are not necessarily interested in Work. In the urban society in India there is always a demand for and talk of jobs. There is no talk about work. Those who want to work, get some Work. I can clearly see that there is a great shortage of Jobs, but there is No dearth of Work. This is a summary of the lifetime of my working. I try to spread this Idea wherever I go, or talk. That is the purpose of this book.
My concept of society is formulated on the basis of this human equality and the idea that all of us like being part of a body. It is thus connected to the basic concept of Indian philosophical and social thinking. Change must start with me. Once I change myself then all will change gradually.
In traditional Indian thinking all emphasis is on_ individual transformation. There is no concept of organisation beyond a Family. This is visible in political, business and other social organisations. This idea of joining the people in the society beyond their birth has helped me in understanding the idea of building good organisations. This idea of having a common organisation built beyond the relations of blood or marriage, organisation beyond the family and the Caste is an imported in India and idea drilled into me by RSS. RSS has digested this Western idea. This is possibly one reason why Indians settled abroad find organisational character in RSS attractive. Few have noticed and commented on this aspect of RSS swayamsevaks.
All political and other organisations, unions, companies, and NGOs are bodies in imitation of the Western concept of Organisation. They have their registered Constitutions, Office bearers, Accounts and audits, minute books and all the paraphernalia of their Western counterparts. They are such bodies without the soul of an Organisation. These are all imported external garments. Their internal power structure however still remains like in the family. They are not organisations in the Western sense. The succession is decided by birth. The motive power or generators are still restricted to some individual and his family. We have still not internalised the idea of differentiating between Person and Post. It is not a part of our present day ethos. We have not poured these so-called organisations into our Indian mould. This graft of Western idea of Organisation is still not holding fast. That our thoughts must now orient towards this aspect is one of the concept to start discussion on it.
I have written this long personal story to stress that these are experiences and attempts of one individual. This history has a complete
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