Justice Umesh C. Banerjee & Justice S.B. Majmudar
Tolstoy wrote:
"the abolition of slavery has gone on far a long time. Rome abolished slavery. America
abolished it and we did but only the words were abolished, not the thing."
Perhaps what Tolstoy wrote about abolition of slavery in a large sense applies to what we have done to the constitutional ethos. It has still remained on paper and is contained in the book, common man. What Swami Vivekananda wrote in a different context may perhaps help a quicker implementation of the goal to bring about the overdue changes for transforming India in a positive way and in fulfilling the dreams of the Constitution fathers. These were the words of the Swami:
"It is imperative that all this various yogas should be carried out in practice. More theories about them will not do any good. First we have to hear about them; then we have to think about them. We have to reason the thoughts out, impress them on our minds and mediate on them; realise them, until at last they become our whole life. No longer will religion remain a bundle of ideas or theories or an intellectual assent; it will enter into out very self. By means of an intellectual assent, we may today subscribe to may foolish things, and change our minds altogether tomorrow. But true religion never changes. Religion is realisation; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories, however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming not hearing or acknowledging. It is the whole soul's becoming changed into what it believes. that is religion."
As a matter of fact the constitutional philosophy should be allowed to become a part of every man's life in this country and then only the Constitution can reach everyone and the ideals of the Constitution framers would be achieved since the people would be nearer the goal set by the Constitution - an ideal situation but a far cry presently. (Balbir Vs. Steel Authority 2000 (4) Scale 670)
Tolstoy wrote:
"the abolition of slavery has gone on far a long time. Rome abolished slavery. America
abolished it and we did but only the words were abolished, not the thing."
Perhaps what Tolstoy wrote about abolition of slavery in a large sense applies to what we have done to the constitutional ethos. It has still remained on paper and is contained in the book, common man. What Swami Vivekananda wrote in a different context may perhaps help a quicker implementation of the goal to bring about the overdue changes for transforming India in a positive way and in fulfilling the dreams of the Constitution fathers. These were the words of the Swami:
"It is imperative that all this various yogas should be carried out in practice. More theories about them will not do any good. First we have to hear about them; then we have to think about them. We have to reason the thoughts out, impress them on our minds and mediate on them; realise them, until at last they become our whole life. No longer will religion remain a bundle of ideas or theories or an intellectual assent; it will enter into out very self. By means of an intellectual assent, we may today subscribe to may foolish things, and change our minds altogether tomorrow. But true religion never changes. Religion is realisation; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories, however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming not hearing or acknowledging. It is the whole soul's becoming changed into what it believes. that is religion."
As a matter of fact the constitutional philosophy should be allowed to become a part of every man's life in this country and then only the Constitution can reach everyone and the ideals of the Constitution framers would be achieved since the people would be nearer the goal set by the Constitution - an ideal situation but a far cry presently. (Balbir Vs. Steel Authority 2000 (4) Scale 670)
