Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra on Saturday observed that the way to peace was the annihilation of the “ballooning of perpendicularism,” and this would mean elimination of ego and adherence to dharma, and expressing human values to protect human rights.
Mr. Justice Dipak Mishra was inaugurating the two-day conference on ‘Human Values and Legal World’, organised by the Sri Sathya Sai Organization (India) at Prashanti Nilayam in Puttaparthi.
In his inaugural address, he said three important principles would help mankind overcome ego.
“Divinity is humanity; thoughtless thought is spirituality, and remaining in constant newness is physical and economic reality. Dharma is a concept that cannot be adequately translated into any language, and it connotes that which sustains society, maintains social order, and ensures well-being and progress of humanity,” he said. Mr. Justice Dipak Misra said there was a greater need to protect human rights by expressing human values.
“One can enjoy one’s human right without bending the human rights of others,” he said.
Spiritual rationality
Talking about the connection between spirituality and rationality, he said there should be “spiritual rationality” and “rational spirituality.”
Interestingly, Mr. Justice Misra shared a Supreme Court judgment that delineated the concept of dignity of human beings, saying that “the reverence of life is unsegragably associated with the dignity of a human being, who is basically divine, not servile. A human personality is endowed with potential infinity and it blossoms when dignity is sustained. The sustenance of such dignity has to be the superlative concern of every sensitive soul.”
The one thousand-plus strong audience rose in standing ovation as he ended his 30-minute talk.
The members of the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust felicitated Mr. Justice Dipak Misra.