Moral Decline in Society

What is the cause for moral decline in society and how can we remedy it at the individual level? 

"On the one side, man has a achieved astonishing progress in science and technology, especially in the fields of electronics, synthetics, atomic power and exploration of space. On the other side we witness political and economic crises, caste and communal conflicts and students agitation. 

Today, moral values are steadily declining among men. In the moral, ethical and spiritual spheres, men's attitudes are deteriorating alarmingly. Even well-versed scholars and eminent public figures are caught up in the coil of bitter controversies because of narrow-minded thinking. Unity among the people is being shattered by the ideological and sectarian differences among persons who are well educated and intellectually eminent. Intellectuals who promote discord are on the increase, but there are few who promote unity in diversity. 

At the root of all these tendencies is the fact that mankind has still not got out of the animal stage. Men have to realise that essentially they are divine in origin. The individual selves have come from the ocean of Sat-Chit-Ananda, like waves from the ocean. It is only when this truth is realised that men can experience true bliss."

~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~ 

(Divine Discourse - 22.7.1994)

Human life is vitiated by selfishness and the pursuit of ephemeral pleasures, forgetting what is eternal and true. - BABA