Humanity-a rare commodity, particularly in this age- unmarketable! We cannot go to the market and as per the saying "pay your money and take your choice," pay the money and take the humanity in exchange. What a state of helplessness. Everybody feels the sorrowful social conditions but everybody is helpless.

Humanity, a step between brutality and Divinity. If it is true that the wheel of evolution goes uninterrupted then humanity is just only one step below the Divinity. It is almost the perfect produce of the Mother Nature and this is why man is boastfully supposed to be the crown of creation. Philosophically as well as scientifically every particle of the universe is standing in waiting for its turn for perfection and reaching the supramental destination. One cannot imagine what a long journey of evolution wedded with his sourceful efforts the man has undertaken before reaching where he stands now. In the circular motion of the Samsaracakra the man must be prepared for a big vertical leap on the path of divinity.

As Dr. Aurobindo dreamed about the future of humanity, the next step must be-human-suprahuman-Divine. In the advent of persons like Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi he visualised the progress of humanity towards its destination. He was optimistic though he could have been right as well-God knows.

On the contrary, to the expectations of the Rsi Aurobindo the situation-social, economic, political, moral, religious and cultural looks somewhat gloomy. The seem to be dashing headlong towards the steep moral degradation to a bottomless depth. In every walk of life only darkness, dejection and gloom without a ray of hope is here, there and everywhere. Anyway humanity has never succumbed to the brutality and monstrosity and has been fighting hard to keep its existence intact and raise its head high. Even now it has not made a surrender to the audacity of the time however unfavourable and hard it may be. That is the only hope which we can entertain in our hearts.

Brutality, dishonesty, atrocity, terroristic activities, political hooliganism, adulterated marketing, production and sale of spurious drugs, corruption in medical practices, religious corruption and so on and so forth-all above malpractices are rampant in the society quite unbridled. Criminalisation of politics has reached such a sinister point that the Election Commission of India under the orders of Supreme Court had to decide to stop the political men with a criminal record from infiltrating the parliament through front or back doors. The doctors who are supposed to be saviours of human life, do not hesitate to steal the vital organs of the patients and sell it in the medical market at exorbitant prices. Exploitation-exploitation-exploitation-everywhere and in every walk of life.The important documents and files with all their sensitivity are sold in international market. Wrong type of contracts and agreements are made for petty commissions. Such is the present condition. Nobody feels safe and secure. People are facing two-sided terror-terror from antisocial elements as Kashmir or north-east part of the country are experiencing on the other hand equally grave is the police terror. We think that it won't be wrong if we say that police are organising themselves as a source of terror to the masses.

Much before Aurobindo, Vivekananda also visualised potential divinity in man and he sincerely believed it. Not only the Swami but almost all dreamers of the world came to more or less the same conclusion. Very early even before the dawn of human civilization the Vedic seers declared human beings as ' But alas! the gap between the sweet dream and the gross reality could not be removed so far and humanity could not advance even a single step on the path of divinisation. Divinisation may be a good ideal but the stark reality is that we are far behind even from being proper humans.

Kalyana-Kalpataru feels that before reaching a divine state, what the society is urgently in need of, is humanisation of human beings. At present the state of affairs is horrible. In the jungle of biped creatures we will find real human beings only to be counted on our finger tips.

Media could play its role efficiently in arousing public opinion in favour of humanity and against hooliganism. But alas! media itself has become a chronic patient of jaundice in the shape of Yellow-journalism. They have got their allegiance to narrow- minded politicians, political parties and the big shots in the industry and business. Gone are the days when the country had full faith in the educative and informative columns of the Press. Media is perhaps the biggest power which can make the governments kneel down before it. If media corrects itself and plays its impartial role in the interest of the society, I think within a short period of coming ten years the face of the society will be entirely changed and this change will be decidedly for the betterment of mankind at the global scale.

What seems to be still more important from the Indian point of view is Indianisation of India. The Indianism and Indian culture particularly the Hindu culture is fast losing the ground. There cannot be any two opinions in regard of the Hindu Aranyaka culture that was far more civilized and divinised too. They were real human beings living in the forest and busy in refining and remodelling of highly progressive and sublime individuality. It is the real panacea of all social evils in the world.

So, Kalyana-Kalpataru decided to bring out its Humanity Number with the idea to highlight the humane qualities still not dead even though in dormant copditions and awaken them. I am fully aware of my limitations. Yet if this number makes any impact on the minds of the readers, the credit goes to the Almighty who made me an instrument for His games. I am nobody to do anything-just a puppet in the Omnipotent hands. In the end I extend my hearty gratitude to our learned contributors and writers whose articles are included in the number and lastly to our generous readers for whose sake this effort has been made. I hope the readers will receive it with the usual zeal and cordiality and inspire others to read it.

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