<p>Being Humane means transformation from an individual to the person who is<br />
not only being able to look things from others perspective and but also able to<br />
show benevolence and compassion with respect to other. Historical evolution of<br />
human was from ape to Homo sapiens. Early man was just like animal,<br />
hunting for food, not familiar with many values of present day society. Values<br />
are the major difference in a person while going along the journey of life. Each<br />
experience, each step we take adds or deletes or modifies our value system<br />
accordingly, to make us better, a true person.<br />
The journey of a human begins from birth of a baby from a mother&rsquo;s womb. At<br />
this stage Human being is no different from any other living being on Earth,<br />
driven by hunger, sleep etc. As we grow, a human develops in many other<br />
aspects, attains values - both positive and negative such as &ndash; love,<br />
compassion, empathy (positive) and selfishness, dishonesty, greed<br />
(negative) etc. A typical human being passes through most of these phases to<br />
become a real &ldquo;human&rdquo;.<br />
Ancient Indian literature, specifically speak about the life journey between<br />
human being to being humane through Purushartha, which literally means<br />
&ldquo;an object of human pursuit&rdquo;. It is a key concept in Hinduism, and refers to the<br />
four proper goals or aims of a human life. The<br />
four puruá¹£Ärthas are Dharma (righteousness, moral<br />
values), Artha (prosperity, economic values), Kama (pleasure, love,<br />
psychological values) and Moksha (liberation, spiritual values). While<br />
human being focuses on Artha and Kama more in initial years while following<br />
Dharma throughout, the focus shifts to attaining Moksha through the phase of<br />
&ldquo;being humane&rdquo; or truly becoming a human. Lives of many present day<br />
industrialists who are doing great deal of charity can be sited under this<br />
example &ndash; such as, Shri. Azim Premji, Shri. Ratan Tata and Mr. Bill Gates.<br />
Our surroundings, parents, teachers, individuality everything place a role in<br />
making us a true human. Based on these, some people might go through this<br />
transition faster and sooner than others. For example, people like Gautama<br />
Buddha, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi have seen the journey of this<br />
life time soon so that they could live as &ldquo;being humane&rdquo; for most of their part.<br />
Their journey did not only make them human, but also helped millions others<br />
to become true persons. Few very important values which are common in<br />
these great people are &ndash; empathy, compassion, truth and non-violence. Hence<br />
it can be inferred that, these values are crucial in &ldquo;being humane.&rdquo;<br />
We cannot define a single set of cardinal values which make a person a true<br />
&ldquo;human&rdquo;. Each person has different way of choosing. For example, during<br />
COVID-crisis many people argued for saving lives is the primacy and<br />
supported for long state imposed lock downs. Whereas other set of people<br />
argued for saving livelihoods of many migrant workers and MSMEs is utmost<br />
important and asked for earliest revival economy. Both are equally correct<br />
and equally wrong. An efficient human will choose a middle path and try to do<br />
justice for both economic and social aspects of human life, minimizing<br />
negative impact of choosing one on the other.<br />
These human values are also temporal in nature i.e change with respect to<br />
time. For example, from the beginning of evolution of human life -till late 20th<br />
century, man mainly focused on bettering human life (both for himself and<br />
others) to become a true human. In this process he destroyed the bio-system<br />
around him. De-forestation, many species becoming extinct, global warming<br />
and climate change all are the result of narrow focus of human on growth<br />
alone. Now the repercussions of this damage are being felt by us also. Hence<br />
now is the time to realize this and incorporate the value of safeguarding biodiversity also as one of the human-values.<br />
Human being is nothing but a flesh and bones at birth, to becoming a complete<br />
man, who influences lives of many by the end of his life. Every person teacher,<br />
cobbler, carpenter, business man, bureaucrat, politician &ndash; has a role to play in<br />
our society. Each person, irrespective of economic prowess, power, and<br />
knowledge becomes a true human &ndash; if in his life time he could make even if a<br />
single person&rsquo;s life better, without making any other&rsquo;s life worst. Such<br />
influence of a person may vary, but at the level of humanity, everyone is equal.<br />
This long life journey is nothing but transition from human being to being<br />
humane.<br />
Declaration: The content of the essay is solely according to my knowledge and is<br />
not copied from anywhere</p>
