Reason may illuminate the path but values determine the destination

Reason may illuminate the path, but values determine the destination. Mother Teresa was a lady of foreign origin her main goal was to help the vulnerable human that became her reason to become nun but her values of compassion toward humans, perseverance to help the needy irrespective of her problems lead to reaching of her destination of helping needy. In India it is evident from history till present that some reason lead to grow emergence of path but values determine whether they reach their destination or not. This can be highly seen of growth of Chandragupta Maurya where his reason became Acharya Chanakya and his values of perseverance led him to became ruler of Aryavarta. But what does actually reason means?

Is it the inner voice, circumstances which the person faces during his life or the teacher which provides him knowledge about life? The truth is that reason includes all the life teachings which person learns by life circumstances, teaching of teacher. and inner voice. Values are the morals, principles and discipline which person learns through one's family, surrounding, atmosphere, etc. which helps in living one's life. But the question is whether the person values are goo always good? Does these values always result in reaching destination? Are these destinations always correct? The real question is whether alone reason and values can in determining the destination The reasons and value are the two sides of a coin which when come together helps in completion of journey to reach one's destination. The reason urges the person to work for the destination i.e. the goal and the value help in accessing the destination. Destination is actually the end or the goal one wants to achieve.

That destination can be good and bad both depending on the reason for which he is working. The reason which a person sees leads him to the destination i.e. the reason if good lead to correct paths while if the reason is bad it may lead to wrong paths. The evident example can be seen for the good reason if is of Dr. B.R Ambedkar Raja Ram Mohan Roy where he worked for the women empowerment against Sati Pratha and this reason of empowering women took him to correct path. The example of wrong reason is the wars fought for land in the name of peace lead to wrong path of violence. But it is not always the wrong reasons leading to wrong path but if good values are there the path can also be correct. The best example is of Dr. BR Ambedkar where his reason for the working towards the empowerment of Dalit is the atrocities he himself faced and saw other dalits facing during his childhood but the chosen by him is was the education and non violence. Now the real question arises of the values seen by a person has. A person has values depending on the atmosphere he grew in. A child growing in an educated and well to do family has value of kindness, generosity etc. which he learnt to from his school and parents. His scope of knowledge and wisdom is more wide. while a child growing in the illiterate, poor family with regular domestic violence occuring; the child will keep on believing that domestic violence is ok, importance of education will be lower and may be he starts using wrong paths to ways like thieving etc. But is there is also a possibility that this child fight used all these wrong reasons to inculcate good values like perseverance, kindness, humanity and reach upto the top. The child person person has the reason to do but his value are incorrect then the destination leads to harsh results like to Mohammed Jinnah fought for independence but his values changed into from nationalism into religionism leading to partition. The good values always stop a person from reaching to wrong destination i.e. a person with self control can't do something wrong in an impulse of action. But values like laziness, hatred etc. stop a person from reaching destination and corrupts a person's mind. The problem arises when values like perseverance for wrong reason acts together to reach a destination which is harmful for the society like even perseverance of Rajputs led to wars even after knowing they are going to lose. The best combination to reach a destination is good reason with good value leading to betterment of society.

When policies made are inclusive, and people officials are loyal to the policies work for upgrading society. Hence it is righteously said that the "No one can construct for you the bridge upon which you precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone".