Of Ethics and morality verses Practicality

One of the most pertinent dilemma I have faced in my life is the during the time when I have had to make a choice between ethics and practicality and I am sure it must be the story with everyone of us. After all we are all not born even nor a saint. We become a balance of the duo in our lifetime. But still have you ever tried to solve the dilemma like the situation says above. Well a few practical heads would just go on following what could be called as "being practical" and in the name of it,they would keep doing whatever they feel like without understanding the unethical of it untill and unless the world catches up with them and they are busted. on the other hand there are the other kinds,the very ethical and holy kinds, its in their ego to "bend a little" and may give up everything for that. It becomes a difficult choice when we are in the pathetic situation. Take an example, as to if you are a salesman, what are you going to do and going to sell. Well, you would definitely be faced with a choice and think of just sticking to the truth.
Often we are asked a very cliche question, that if you were to go from delhi to mumbai to say face a particular entrance/competitive exam, but then you are not getting any train reservation and you are confused as to what to do, use the corruption method and get your tickets, or be a moral person and give up the entrance exam coz you don't want to go the corrupt way. So what do you?

Well the only answer that I found to this was: PURPOSE.

Yes its the purpose that ultimately defines as to what we are doing is right or no!
Didn't get me right????
Well, using the corrupt ways to get the rail tickets so that you could give the entrance exams isn't a very bad idea. After all you used this method to fulfill the right goal: the goal of clearing the entrance exams. So as long as your purpose is right, you need not worry as to how you are going to reach the respective goal. And sometimes some wrong methods are necessary to reach our goal. What do I mean by wrong method? Well essentially wrong methods means breaking the existing rules,or twisting them, get the things through "it happes through this way only" method, and similar such methods.
Lets come to the rules. Who set those rules? Why were those rules set? If those rules do not satisfy my purpose in life then why should I follow them? A rule which is so rigid that you are not able to reach your goal then what is the necessity of such rules?? IT only goes on to mean that such rules are meant to be broken. After all what such rigid rules are made so that those who are sitting at their chair may continue to do so! This reduces competition and sooner or later it leads to the degradation of the whole system. Be it politics, business, bollywood, sports or any other field, the characteristic that should be common in all is a chance for everybody to have a free and fair competition. Since many typical rules are made which does not conform to this ideal need, it sometimes necomes a necessity to break the rules and thus use the "WRONG METHODS" to reach your goal. After all evil can only be defeated by evil, the only difference is we use the evil methods for good purposes.

I will just give another example of how this evil methods and evil purposes differ. It is usually seen in colleges/schools etc where alot of students bunk classes. A very common example. They are two categories of people who do this. Yet both do it purposely. The first category will bunk classes, go to the movies,sleep at their homes, lazy around, drink smoke and have a good time. And when the college is over, they are left with the begging bowls and simply look at those sincere ones who pass out with a secure job/marks etc. If you belong to this category, then hell be it. You are going to have a very tough time in your life. Though you may enjoy the present, but it is going to last for a very short time and you are going to cry for the rest of your life. And you will keep crying in happiness as well as despair over those daru-sutta days.

But before I come to the second category of people who bunk classes, let me describe the in-between kinds. The do good,live good, follow the rules and the sincere types. They attend classes, get marks(albeit whatever be the grounds of getting it), come back home do there work and are the sincere types. Atleast they reach the level as to what the society considers to be sincerity. They live in today, and are to insecure to venture out on some different paths to prove something or achieve something. SO what is the problem in being such a sincere person. The answer is nothing. No problem at all. But then there is nothing too great about it. You live by the system,for the system and you become apart of the system, gruelling under its rules complaining about the problems and then finally going back home and sleeping the day off. One day you realize that you have grown olf and then you die. Though you look back and see that you have lived a sincere life,but then that is just about it. nothing more or less. It is just that nothing wrong happened in your life. The only problem is you will feel the emptiness of something of value in your life. And the another thing that will keep biting you is that you could have done this and that that. The problem here is that though you know that you have worked your whole life but why did you work, what did you achieve etc, these questions will keep bothering you and eating you up from inside..... if you are the in-between then I don't know I can't comment. Coz though your life won't be meaningless, it would not be meaningful either. What is the difference between the two, you resolve.

Lets come to the second category of class bunkers!
These are the people who bunk class to escape from the present shit and work for something more valuable. That actually brings in some value to themselves and to the system. They do the evil of bunking classes but for a good purpose. They have their goal in mind. In schools students are usually seen bunking classes to prepare for competitive classes IITJEE and medical entrance exams. They know the rut education that they get in their schools won't help them for the IIT-JEE exams where true and conceptually cleared knowledge is required. In colleges, you would find students bunking classes so that they may devote more time to projects that are of their interest and they see a purpose in it, rather than wasting their time studying crap in the classes where the proffs themselves don't realize the crap they are teaching. Atleast if these students fail in some kind of their respective goals, atleast they have learnt something that is immense value and which shall lead them to much greater heights. YOu may call them selfish, but then its just a view. If that selfishness brings divine reults then let the whole world be selfish. Atleast then the blame game in the society would stop and the people would learn to be slefish enought to work for something substantial which brings something good to the society and ultimately to themsleves. That is the kind of selfish I am talking about.