Tulsi Prajna 1997 07

SR No.: 524592
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1997
Total Pages: 166
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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the callous abuse of power are all inscribed in our sacred texts. We in Gandhiji's India did not need the Club of Rome to tell us of the Limits to Growth But we abandoned the principles which gave our civilization strength and success in our quest for freedom. We of Nehru's India, should have had the moral courage to temper militarisation and give due emphasis and priority to people's rigbt to better life.
I am associated with two volaptary organisations in Udaipur. Seva Mandir and Vidya Bhawan. Seva Mandir works in 400 tribal villages with the philosophy that people must participate with sacrifice and effort in their own development. Vidya Bhawan is an educational society with 8 institutions. Seva Mandir is committed to its motto-"Seva Sadhana Kranti" and Vidya Bhawan to 'Karmanyevadhikaraste Ma Phaleshu Kadachan'. Both share the conviction that the burden of development and poverty alleviation cannot be left to government's responsibility. Vidya Bhawan's aim articulated in 1931 stated that education must be for all round character development of the child. Alas, Vidya Bhawan got contaminated by the pollution of values prevailing in the politics and the society around us. But we are trying to regain our ideals of service, even in the face of financial deficits. We want to establish a new lastitution to train Panchayati elected democrats in Local Self-Government. It would be a school for citizenship combined with a documentation centre for Human Rights. We have faith that Voices from below can bring a corrective to corruption in the higher echelons. We look to public spirited people of all creeds to bolster our faith and provide the means to persist with our goals.
Our aims are modestly similar to that of Anuvrat. But we lack the leadership of people like Acharya Tulsi. Anuvrat is an island committed to India's renewal. Your message of peace is a call for internationalism and building a partnership where practice and principle are in harmony.
You the students who have come here are fortunate. You have learnt that inner discipline, self-restraint, sense of fraternity, disrcgarding caste, colour or creed can create a society that can lead to freedom from submission, anxiety and exploitation. We diplomats are hypocritical when we talk of peace. Here your commitment flows from iqner conviction of Preksha Dhyan and Sadhana. You