Satyopanisad

[Guest guest]

Swami! What are your comments on brain drain? Many highly educated professionals

like engineers, doctors, computer experts plan to go abroad and settle there for

better and higher prospects of income and placement in life. This is the cause

for worry in many circles, both government and private. What do you feel about

this?

 

It is most unfortunate that this trend is on the rise. This is not good at any

point of time anywhere in the world. You are born in this society. So you grow

up, educate yourself, make money, name and fame in this society. Only through

this society you could get your clothing, food and shelter: Have you come up on

your own without the society you live in? Could you make a career for yourself

without its support? Should you not express your sense of gratitude to it for

all it has done for you?

 

Man should never be an ungrateful creature. The best way to be grateful is to

serve. You know, our people put in greater effort, and work more sincerely

abroad. While they are here they don't show the same spirit and the same zeal in

their work. They are not as sincere and industrious here as they are in foreign

countries. In fact, the emoluments they get here by doing their best will be the

same as they get abroad, a fact they fail to realise. To some extent, parents

also are responsible for this problem of brain drain. They don't properly

inculcate in children the values of work, patriotism, sacrifice, love and

gratitude.

 

So, it is your fundamental duty to serve the society in which you are born and

brought up. You see many a foreigner coming here. They learn lots of things from

this sacred land of your birth, whereas our people forget what they know. Some

of our people are even inferior to locals and natives of foreign countries in

respect of observing traditions. What for is our education? Is it for the

decline of human values? Janani janmabhumi s'ca svargadapi gariyasi . Rama

observed `Mother and motherland are greater than Heaven.'