True Ethics is Dharma, the right fulfilment and working of

the higher nature, and right action should have right motive,
should be its own justification and not go on the crutches of
greed and fear.
- Sri Aurobindo
Origin of the moral world
‘ Your visit is enough for me to get well. Why bring a doctor and spend money on his fees?’ This
was the gentle rebuke of the aged father of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the father of Indian missile
technology and the former president of India, whenever kalam visited his house along with the
doctor. When his father died at the age of 102, a heart-broken kalam reflected: ‘ He was the plain
and transparent man. My father pursued the same value good.’ His mother died soon after. He felt
that he should have taken time off from his work and the preoccupation with technology to take
care of his old parents. But when he visited mosque, a quiet reflection there made it clear to him
that his parents had, in fact, achieved their highest accomplishment, while he had still a long way
to go. ‘The next morning’ he writes ‘ I was back at Thumba( space centre in Kerala), physically
exhausted, emotionally shattered, but determined to fulfil our ambition of flying an Indian rocket
motor on foreign soil’