Immortal Values -3.1. { The majority people of Bharatham pretend to be a western, by stupid imitation of external outlook and language, throwing their own country Bharatham and her immortal Values and rich Upanishadik culture }

Satsangam

Opinion
    19/06/2016.
         601.

           All Members,
          Respected family members of this great holy Nation.

    Sub : Immortal Values-3.1
  Swami Chinmayananda.

  Ref : { The majority people of Bharatham pretend to be a western, by stupid imitation of external outlook  and language, throwing their own country Bharatham and her immortal  Values  and rich Upanishadik culture }

  3. Relationship to Society-1.

Satyam vada, “Speak the truth”: Truthfulness consists mainly in uttering a thought as it is actually perceived, without hypocrisy or any vulgar motive to do injury to others. Truthfulness in its essential meaning is the atunement of one’s thoughts with one’s own intellectual convictions.

Having developed this quality of truthfulness, where should one apply it? As if anticipating such a doubt in the student, the teacher says, dharmam chara. Dharma is a Sanskrit word that has no corresponding word in English. We may, for our convenience, but not to our full satisfaction, translate dharma as “duty”.

Hinduism is built upon duties and responsibilities, not on rights. A culture built upon duties recognizes the right to do one’s duty as the fundamental privilege in life. A generation that understands such a culture gets trained to demand of life ample chances to fulfil its duties. Duty, therefore, develops the spirit of giving, not the lust to hoard or the anxiety to keep.

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