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Similar is Article 18 of the Declaration of Human Rights.<ref name=":0" />
Similar is Article 18 of the Declaration of Human Rights.<ref name=":0" />
=== Right to Social Security ===
All individuals do not possess the capacity or resources to lead a happy life. Many individuals suffer from abject poverty, want of education or earning capacity, physical or mental deformity, disease, old age, loss of earning member of the family etc. But all such individuals have the basic human right to happiness. This right is sought to be protected by creating duty in individuals on whom they depend as also on the State. Mahabharata verse which declared rules of “Dharma” included the duty of an individual to maintain his dependents.
“Truthfulness, to be free from anger, sharing wealth with others, (Samvibhaga) forgiveness, procreation of children from one’s wife alone [sexual morality] purity, absence of enmity, straightforwardness, maintaining persons dependent on oneself are the nine rules of Dharma of persons belonging to all the varnas. [M.B. Shantiparva, Ch, 60-7-8]
It may be noticed that the duty to share the wealth. with others [Samvibhaga] as also the duty to maintain one’s dependents [Brithya bharanam] are declared as the rules of Dharma. This perhaps is the best form of social security provided in Bharatiya civilization and culture, without throwing any burden on the State. This duty was rooted in the two basic values of life namely selflessness and sacrifice. Swamy Vivekananda declared that these are our National values in the following words:
“The national ideals of India are renunciation and service. ____ Intensify her in those channels, and the rest will take care of itself’. [India and her Problems, p.10]
It is a matter of pride that in Indian civilization this duty or pious obligation has been discharged in an exemplary manner. An individual earning member never thought of himself or his wife and children alone and considered others as burden. He always considered that it was his sacred duty to maintain aged parents, unemployed or minor brothers and sisters, widowed sisters if any or any other member of the family or those members who are physically or mentally handicapped. He used to provide shelter, food, clothing, medicine, education, perform marriage etc. He never considered it as a burden.
The provision on this aspect in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is Article 22, which reads:
“Every one as a member of society, has the right to ‘social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international cooperation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.”
Thus, right to social security as a human right recognised in Bharatiya Culture holds good for all times and to the entire — humanity. But, the special feature was instead of throwing the entire burden of social security on the exchequer (royal or national treasury), it has to be borne by the earning member of a family.<ref name=":0" />
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