Agenda for Future on SPIRITUAL QUOTIENT IN DEVELOPMENT


Remains of Jain Temple after earthquake in village Kanthkot,
taluka Bachau Kutch district,Gujarat.

The NOSD advocate spirituality as a forth dimension of the sustainable Development besides economic, social and environmental. Unless society restore its ethical and high moral values with low energy consumption pattern, it would not be possible to attain sustainable development.

At the heart of this conception is the understanding that human nature is fundamentally spiritual and that spiritual principles provide an enormous motivational power for brining about positive social change. This means initiating efforts to create a new, value based approach to development.

In India and other countries, worship of natural resources like sun, earth, air, trees, animals, water resources are part of their tradition. Over period of time, it has become now ritual without sentiments. Today, human greed for short gain has undermine its needs. Moral values have degenerated in the society. Stress life is giving birth to new diseases. There is no sign of ending this process. In the search of wealth and status by any and all means, human has lost peace of mind. Now he is looking for alternate remedy. A possible way to restore peace and harmony with all nature creature is spirituality.

An abundance of such resources exist in all major religions today. A growing understanding of spirituality being intimately connected to and located within nature bodes well for the mediation of human existence and nature. This approach of peaceful coexistence also augurs well for future cooperation between ecological groups and advocate social justice. The ultimate aim of this initiative would be to place spiritual principles at the heart of the development. There is need to bring Peace, Cooperation, Altruism, Dignity, Rectitude of conduct and justice in the society which requires both the “light” of spiritual awareness and the “lamp” of material resources. In future NOSD would concentrate on the forth dimension of the development in its project by developing workable indicators.