Views and Words - Dr K S Radhakrishnan
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In every process of rejuvenation there is an act of
self actualization or self regulation, because the moment one creates something
one has to ensure full participation in the act of creation. That full
involvement occurs only when one is able to exercise free will. Otherwise, a
person who is not involved in a particular activity will naturally be alienated
from the action as well as the context in which he is acting. This process of
alienation is a very serious one and the person who himself alienates from the
context, as well as the action, will never be able to make anything novel or
anything creative. It is the total involvement of the person in the context as
well as in the action that makes him really free and such a person should be
able to create something, in the sense that he must be able actualize whatever be
the potentialities in him. The range of the actualization as well as the range
of the potentialities may be changing from person to person or place to place. A
person who is actualizing something alone need not be great – this rule is
applicable to a great writer and a great craftsman.
A person who is able to actualize whatever he has
with him must be able to produce something and such an act of creation must be able
to surpass the test of times. The test of times means that an act of creation
must be able to survive irrespective of the temporal changes. This is what is
meant by the term novelty. So the act of creation is a novel action and in that
novel action the person actualizes whatever he has with him in the potential
form. If there is a cent percent involvement in that actualization that can be
treated as self-realization in the context in which one acts. So, self-realization
is the aim of a creative artist. The moment one feels that he has actualized whatever
he has with him then he can be sure of the fact that act has been a creative
one. Such an act of creation really leads the whole nation to prosperity and
progress. A progressive society is one that gives maximum opportunity to its
members for the actualization of their talents. This is one of the reasons why
the fascist societies are not able to survive the test of the times. Such a
society will never be able to preserve the right of its individuals to create
with maximum involvement in the said context. This is one of the reasons why
the fascist maxims are failing in due course. Fascism will never be able to
entertain the free will of the individual and since they are not able to do
that they won’t be able to help those members of the society to actualize their
capacities; it can be in any form.
A man can be creative in a business field just like genuine
artist. So we cannot say that only artists and writers are creative and
business men are not. This style of thought never makes any sense. Business men
can also be creative provided they also blossom into full. This is applicable
to every area of action including religious service. Take for example any
business man or an industrialist, who is making money and he cannot enjoy the
total of his creation for himself alone. That is another characteristic of the
art of creation. The art of creation guarantees its enjoyment not to the
creator alone but to other persons who need not be gifted to live in a particular
favour. Take for ex. Ford. The Ford industry has made money, and whatever Ford
has made, that money is utilized also by the persons who are not directly
linked to him. This is the case of a businessman in India too. My point is that
whatever be the art of creation, one of the aims is that any activity of
creation is not exclusively meant for the creator alone; it is meant for the
whole public in the sense that it also includes the generations to come.
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