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Leading A Spiritual Life

It is a fact that there is competition in socio-economic
life. But this competition is not evil. It is good for
every society. During the process of competition, one
group may temporarily emerge as a privileged group,
while other groups may in comparison seem to be
underprivileged.
However, this state of affairs proves to be positive in
terms of its result. According to natural law, sooner or
later, the underprivileged group is bound to become
infused with a new spirit, which will play a revolutionary
role in enabling it to prevail over the negative aspects of
its present situation. If the underprivileged group was
earlier an uncreative group, it will now emerge under
the pressure of circumstances as a creative group.

Keeping this in mind, one can safely say that ‘compete
or perish’ is a wrong saying. In economy, victory and
defeat come and go on an alternate basis.
Competition is not just the byword of capitalism. It
is a phenomenon of nature, which inevitably fosters
competition. Competition creates challenges, challenges
act as incentives to increased effort, and this leads to
reaching new heights of success. In this sense, a better
maxim than ‘compete or perish’ is, ‘compete and grow’.

So, by following the law of nature we can say that the
survival of both and not the survival of the fittest is the
best formula.

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