The corona pandemic has suddenly increased our vocabulary
with new terms like ‘COVID 19’, ‘PPE’, ‘Social distancing’ etc. One such term
is ‘lock-down’.
Propagated through western media, this term was
coined by busyness mind-set of people for an action taken to stop or cut down
all non-essential activities & movements. In business world, putting a lock
or stop on production activity causing the downtrend of production is known as
lock down and often used by labor unions to show off their powers.
But we Indians have a different mindset
/prospective towards life & doing business. We always take a disciplined
approach for our activities. If we become careless in this regard, an external
agency like Government, Family, Society or Employer forces us to ‘keep in order’.
‘Brahmchary(a) or self-discipline is one of the five basic principles of
yog(a). Our concept of health is ‘swasthy (स्वास्थ्य)’ meaning situated within self (स्वयं में स्तिथ हो जाना) in
contrast to the ‘absence of any disease’ definition of western world. And food itself
is the medicine according to Ayurved(a).
In our context, it will be mindful to replace
the term Lock down with ‘Self Imposed Discipline’ which will
be meaningful & motivating.
I appeal the Government of India
to consider this suggestion for use of this new world in all communications. Please
join me in this effort.
