Introduction
‘Discipline’ bridges goals with accomplishment, while absence of disciple i.e. ‘anarchy’ brings chaos and uproots the widely acceptable and healthy goals. Discipline helps us realising our dreams and goals in the healthy and amiable ambience, while indiscipline or anarchy destroys our calm peaceful and progressive environment, and prevents us from the course of happiness and success. Anarchy is at the root of oppression, exploitation, violence, sorrow, misery and unhappiness. Self-discipline tames our lusts and desires, while anarchy makes us slave to our lusts and desires, and ultimately jeopardises our life. The word ‘discipline’ comes from ‘disciple’ (a learner or follower of a teacher or guru) which is originated from the Latin word, ‘disciplina’ meaning ‘instruction’ and ‘knowledge’. On the contrary, ‘anarchy’ means lawlessness or indiscipline. Originally, it is originated from the Greek word ‘anarkhos’ meaning ‘without a ruler’. Anarchy keeps one or a nation in extreme chaos or lawlessness which often leads to destruction. Anarchy snatches away our normal balance between work and our goals, as well as destroys our human values.
Importance of Discipline
Discipline has immense importance in our life. Discipline is teaching and training obedience, self-respect, and other sets of required skills, rules and knowledge through a systematic way. It is the foundation of the whole universe, without it nothing is practicable even the creation of the world and subsequently diverse lives on earth would not have been possible. When the universe will lose discipline, it will be in anarchy and definitely come to an end. So, the inculcation of discipline is a must from very childhood. Talents and greater ideas blossom in a disciplined person, not in an undisciplined one. Discipline is behind the all-round progress and prosperity of a person as well as a nation. Discipline is therefore, essential in all walks of our lives. The earth revolves around the sun following the universal discipline. Certain discipline is in the lives of animals, birds and insects. So, to keep peace, progress and prosperity in social, political and economic dimensions, we must maintain discipline. In family, society, educational institutions, public and private offices, games and sports, army, transport and communication, discipline predominantly plays the vital role. There lies discipline behind the accomplishment of success in our life in any field. Without discipline a person cannot live or even do his work well.
Self-Discipline and its Importance
The inculcation of self-discipline is a bit hard. Self-discipline means to govern oneself by controlling lusts and desires—both good and bad. In broader sense, it means to always keep one’s awareness and conscience active, which helps one to take right decision at the right time. The waning of self-discipline among the young people often leads them to lots of social crimes as well as evils. As a result, they are deviated from the main course of social lives. The lack of self-discipline also ruins human values in the young people and leads their lives to darkness and at large out of their knowledge. This problem is one of the major concerns of the world. The lives of eminent persons of diverse fields like, Albert Einstein, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, APJ Abdul Kalam, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mahatma Gandhi, Milkha Singh, Sachin Tendulkar, Shahrukh Khan, are founded by stern self-discipline and hard-work. Life in their sense is, ‘ninety-nine per cent perspiration, one per cent inspiration’. Even in our everyday life, we see many glamorous celebrities of various professions in newspapers, news headlines or sometimes in stage shows. If we glance at their lives till that time, we discover that their lustre and accolade is founded by perseverance, hard-work and steady endeavour charged by their self-discipline day-night. Success is not a magical action; it is rather the outcome of self-disciplined diligence for years. A person can accomplish such luck lustre success, only if he inculcates selfdiscipline from the very beginning of his life. Our self-discipline largely determines our success. That is why children are advised and encouraged to start their life with a combination of varieties of work along with their studies. Cultivating hobbies they like, playing outdoor games and sports, taking exercises, yoga and practising meditation, practising awareness, judging things and actions by their human values, passing time with superior ones, following news, pursuing their studies, and above all obeying their superiors. The combination of all these activities in the routine life of a child helps him blossom his potentials and led him towards the goal he has posted. To maintain a routine life one must inculcate self-discipline.
Anarchy and its Adverse Impacts
On the contrary, lack of discipline is anarchy which is considered the greatest evil of mankind. The slightest loss of our awareness and indifference to discipline give birth to anarchy and from that very moment it begins gradually prevailing in our life by hoarding unruly elements of our life, even tempts us to those for transitory happiness and comfort. This result in complete loss of discipline, then anarchy rules our life by making us slave to our lusts and desires. Anarchy also destroys our moral and ethical principles, and being blind to our lusts we turn ourselves brutes. We ruin our lives unknowingly as well as mar other lives in the society. Our activities will then appear just in our own viewpoints, but in reality we only go on doing one after another misdeed. Such cases of anarchy in a human’s life often come out in the news headlines. The respective countries then highlight these cases with legal proceedings for mass awareness.
Similarly, anarchy in a country means the situation of lawlessness or political disorder when subordinates and leaders do according to their own intensions without the rules and regulations of the country. A democracy like India too was threatened by its dangers in the period of emergency in late 1970s. There was a possible situation of anarch during the tenure of then Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi. However, before it could assume its massive form, a new government was formed timely within a few years. Anarchy makes people unhappy and becomes the cause of their uncertain life full of worries and threats day in and day out. For instance, during the capture of a country by its militant groups there prevails a situation of extreme disorder and chaos as we have seen in cases of Iraq, Afghanistan or Sudan in recent years. The consequences of anarchy are violence, suffering of the mass from oppression, exploitation, injustice, eviction threats and a lot more. The anarchists in such situations think themselves the lords of their lands, but ultimately they are punished, or lead a perilous life.
Impacts of Discipline and Anarchy
Nations like Union of Soviet Socialist Republication (USSR) or Russia, Japan, China, etc. have witnessed the fruition of rigorous discipline over years which led them to success in accomplishing social and economic development. On the contrary, nations like Iraq, Iran and Libya have experienced a great social, economic and ethical loss for the anarchists. The redundancy of anarchy on individuals as well as on nations has proved repeatedly that people must ensure that they learn the art of discipline for better social order, peace, progress and prosperity.
Conclusion
There is no alternative to discipline that can help people transform their life from adversity to prosperity, from ignorance to renaissance, and above all, to achieve far better social, political and economic developments. It also promotes people as well as nations towards perfection. Contrarily, anarchy halts all mighty positive forces and deviates people and nations to worse situations. In every realm, discipline appears to be a shackled habit, and in some cases seem difficult to inculcate, but its fruits are very sweet that set up the foundation of greater accomplishment, growth and development and above all, the throne of wide acclaim. It also leads a man to live in deeds not in years