In most people’s lives success is just thriving; especially when in conditions like India where the return on success is so meagre. Luxury is something that the Indian man has been taught to detest. When compared success in America means a lot, super cars, super models, luxury homes, yachts etc; In India this scale is very low; maybe because of the fact that most Indians are ugly and the majority wants to portray this ugliness as their message to the world or maybe everything is scrutinized in India without any value for personal space. A stark message America puts forward to is that it values success more than any nation in the world and the excellence and merit you need to be successful in America would be naturally high, when compared maybe a mediocre American businessman could be the head of a highly successful Indian business or maybe he could even compete for Presidency in India but even then they wouldn’t spend their resources here as the returns of success is very low in India; we are a nation which might boast of a Chaprasi first person if it can in the future and the entire nation giving away its applauses because common is great in India.
The Indian dream is so simple, the achievement of something great, the pursuit of excellence by commoners and sniffing of the achievement for maybe a decade or so and then dying of natural causes. The truth is that India has a great burden of its past, a past that is so vibrant and excellent that it has been dared not to touch because once when somebody touches it the common man’s stupid dreams would shatter into pieces making him desolate. This Indian dream is false and annoying to that Indian who has been crucified for saying out the truth loud and clear. This made believed bubble of India which he knows to be a farce is belittling him, a million lies has been casted around to protect this lie but yet a lie is a lie and people should be allowed to bask in the light of truth that what India was even if there are very few achievers.
Why is an Indian taught to detest material success; well it’s a burden on spirituality and the ends to means for the spirit is not money and this was the truth that the common Indian man was accustomed to at a point of time when there was Chaturvarnyam; it’s a system which gave you natural success; if you were born into an upper house you were successful by your very birth by the merits of your previous lives. But now everybody despite of his birth or any other clarifications jumps for the highest position. It’s like a jungle without an order where the Lions exile and dogs bark for the highest meat.