Where is the root of corruption? Are the system corrupted? Are the group of people, certain communities, certain countries or some specific people are corrupt? What is corruption? Where does corruption origin from? Who can really stop corruption?
When a human being feels that I deserve more or better than the others because I belong to a certain economical stratum or a certain community or a certain nationality; he/she expects different treatment / responses from his surroundings. When we say that “if I can afford it, I must get certain comforts”; when we say “if I can’t pay for it I expect certain compassion/concessions from others” – in both cases I am expecting something. As the next step I start my efforts to fulfill these expectations.
Every time I choose to do something or not do something depends on my expectations. We feel as if we are choosing freely but are we really freely choosing or are we bound by our expectations?
If I question myself – why must I get better than others? What is my effort in getting born in some particular house, why am I more intelligent than others, why I have better opportunities to get better education, better upbringing, better life; then I am sure we may not be able to answer many of these questions.
When I think that I deserve better or less than others I have already prepared a ground for corruption in my mind.
Based on what I think I deserve I create my own surrounding for myself and get very comfortable in this surrounding – we create our comfort zone. Once I create my own comfort zone all my effort go in maintaining this comfort zone and anything that protects, supports, nurtures and/or enhances this comfort zone I allow to happen. But anything that challenges or threatens this comfort zone I fight it. Again what I choose to do or not do for self is coming from protecting this comfort zone.
Every step in life we keep making decisions, we need to choose between right and wrong. If I choose to do things which are not just right for me but right for everyone then, not good only for me and my dear ones but good for everyone in the world then I have taken a right decision.
When I choose to favor someone so that I will get better than another I compromise on choosing right. Similarly when I receive favor so that I can maintain my own comfort zone I am compromising on choosing right too.
Now the question is what is my level of awareness? How many times do I question myself before making my choice whether I am choosing right or choosing what is comfortable to me?
Corruption starts in each unaware moment in each unaware human mind and spreads as a disease in society. And individual creates corrupt systems and then complains of being ruled by it. And only an individual has the power to change the system by changing his own level of awareness.
And when we realize it we will understand how simple it is to change corrupt people, corrupt systems or corrupt societies.
Because nature shows us in every event such as tsunami, volcano, earth quake or any such disastrous phenomenon that no matter how strong walls of comfort we create around us; it takes only one moment for it to turn into a debris or ashes.
anando 
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