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THE POISON OF HUBRIS

by Naresh Jotwani

A couple of days ago, Keshav Vaze wrote a comment, which we posted here. This post is a follow up on the last part of Keshav’s comment. The post is also, in essence, a speculation on why someone may fail to consider Dharma in his actions.

Quoted below is the last paragraph in Keshav’s comment, on which this post takes a different view:

Unless the society accepts the tenets that ‘Good is good in itself. There is no one sitting in judgement. There is no reward nor punishment: neither in this birth nor in the next birth’, the society will land into this problem.

Co-editor R. Srinivasan (‘Srini’) has also contributed greatly to this post, through discussions held over the phone.

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