What is the point in having the best, largest, biggest marina or yacht or buffet or bank-balance, if there is no love and belongingness of your family and fellow villagers? Can the brotherhood and sense of oneness be maintained, once the exclusivity of such projects come up in Nauxim? In pre-touristic Goa, every villager probably knew his ganv-bhav or ganv-bhoinn. In our so-called developed villages at present, do we even know the neighbouring shopkeeper? These projects lead to anonymousness. We should not become strangers in our land.
Goa may not be economically “developed”, but our family life, village life are highly sociologically developed, environmentally-sustainably developed. We sometimes do not recognise this. We may be Sussegad, but it is not meaning lazy, but is being content...content with life, content with God’s blessings. We see the belongingness of sitting together on a canoe. We do not want the exclusiveness of a yacht. It is not our culture. Instead of riches and luxury and dissatisfaction due to greed and craving for more, it is just better to have our needs of food, clothing and shelter to sustain and continue our simple God-fearing lifestyle.
Hope those, knowingly or innocently, promoting and helping in these and other Goa-destructive projects, understand that the deeper meaning of life is more than profits. What is the point in gaining the whole world but losing your soul? This was repeatedly asked by one future saint to another. I hope the promoters of these projects find contentment in giving, without expecting in return. Hope they leave these unwanted projects. I pray that this project is not forced upon humble, simple, peace-loving Goans.
