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The Glory of Indian Culture

The entire Cosmos has emerged from Truth

And it will merge back in Truth

Where is the place beyond the sway of Truth?

Behold, brothers, That which is the Pure Sathwa!

Embodiments of Divine Love, dear students, teachers and patrons of education!

To every man born on earth, Truth is verily the visible God. The entire universe consisting

of movable and immovable objects has emerged from Truth. Sathyam-Jnanam-

Anantam-Brahma. Truth is indeed Brahman. Truth is endless. According to Vedantins,

Truth is synonymous with the eternal Brahman. Hence, truth alone has to be revered by

everyone. Bharathiyas (Indians) are wedded to truth and righteousness. Justice is their

mainstay. Every man is the inheritor of truth and righteousness. Young boys and girls

who want to promote peace and harmony should strive to seek and pursue truth. Bharathiyas

cherish the welfare of the world. Our youth should therefore dedicate themselves

to universal well-being. This is our creed or religion, so to speak. It is because we have

forgotten such sacred truth as well as our culture and the sanctity thereof, that we are unable

to achieve communal unity and national integrity.

Truth and righteousness will never submit to anything. All kinds of power, whether

physical, intellectual, monetary, military, or political, have to bend before truth and righteousness;

but the latter will yield to none. Truth and righteousness will always triumph.

The chief requisite of man’s life is to be human. Whatever our scholarship or position

of authority, we should not ignore the human values. Indian culture is unparalleled and

most wonderful. Having forgotten the grandeur and glory of their heritage, the students of

today enticed by so-called modernity, have become oblivious to their own innate divinity.

The whirlwind of the rapidly progressing science and technology, coupled with industrialization,

is bringing about undesirable changes in our society by way of uprooting the

moral or ethical values so essential for human well-being. Science and technology have,

no doubt, contributed substantially to material progress; but they have altogether undermined

spiritual values such as selflessness, divinity, and dignity inherent in man. In a

way, they have devalued humanity itself so much so that the present generation of young

men and women are unable to recognise their divine nature. They are considering selfcentredness

as the goal of life. Demonic qualities like ostentation, egoism, and excessive

and empty talk are playing their devil dance in society. This very country, which has been

the spiritual teacher of entire mankind, is becoming the playing field of evil forces like

injustice, indiscipline, licentiousness, and defiance of truth. Having become slaves to

modernity, people are utterly disregarding truth and righteousness and ignoring the hoary

Indian culture and traditions, with the false notion that material self advancement is the

summum bonum of life. What the students have to protect today is not the nation. They

have to safeguard truth and righteousness only. These two, in turn, will protect the nation.

Giving up truth and righteousness, educated persons nowadays are causing damage to the

nation, ostensibly in the name of protecting it.

People do not become wise by mere education. They are considering education as a

means of livelihood rather than the art of living. The supreme goal of life should ever be Ram ChuganiKobe, Japan