Light Elements

Hope is indeed a great
motivator. One should always be optimistic. The Hon’ble Prime Minister has
given us the hope of “Achhe Din”. Howsoever difficult a situation may be, one
should never give up hope. Otherwise, we can’t survive. Hope, in Sanskrit,
means ‘Asha’. There is a very good subhashit (thought) that reads
like this:-

Meaning – hope is a
mysterious chain for men. Those who are bound by this chain keep on running;
but those without this chain get paralysed!

There are numerous
instances in history as to how brave people have come out of grave situations
of absolute darkness where there was no hope for escape.

A village potterman had a
donkey with him. The potterman was not a kind-hearted person. He used to
ill-treat the donkey by keeping him starved, slogging him every now and then
and extracting a lot of work from him.

The donkey had a friend –
obviously, another donkey. That friend asked this donkey – ‘Arey, your
boss is so cruel. He beats you, does not give you food and gets so much work
done from you. Then why do you continue with him?

The donkey said “friend,
what you say is right. My owner is not at all a good person. But I stay with
him with
one hope.

–  What is that?

–  See, my boss has a small daughter – just 5
years old.  She is very naughty.

–   So what?

–  The boss keeps on shouting at her every now
and then.  He scolds her and sometimes
even beats her gently.

–  But what is your hope?

–   She doesn’t stop her ‘masti’.  She keeps on being naughty.  She jumps from a tall stool, breaks the cups,
throws her things everywhere, spoils her clothes by dancing in the mud – and
what not!

–  But how does it help you, my dear friend?

–   Listen. 
When she does too much of masti, he shouts, “Baby, now if you do
any more masti, I will get you married to this donkey!! 

With this hope, I am
continuing with this boss.

I
think, this story has a great lesson to all of us CAs.  We also get promises that our laws will be
simplified, regulation will be reduced, administration will be humane and
citizen-friendly, there will be ‘ease of doing business’. – so on and so
forth.  Situation is worsening
day-by-day.  Bureaucracy will never allow
good things to happen smoothly.  We are
also taught a myth that a chartered accountant should have ‘independence’ – to
act without fear or favour!

Now, if we give up hope,
how can we survive?  This hope alone may
bring us together and unite us to be more assertive!

So, never give up
hope.  _