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AMAR VANI
No, you are a pilgrim bound for a destination beyond which there remains no more distance to cover. In the words of a poet -...“The aim of life is not to sit and take rest in pleasure-palaces; the aim of life is to keep on advancing forward until you reach a destination beyond which there is no more going.”
Great Culture
It has become a fashion today to speak highly of one's own culture and civilization. Man has gone crazy in this mad pursuit. There has long been a sort of lug of war between different cultures and civilizations. But the controversy as to which of them is the best culture can be settled through just one simple question, provided the reply to the question is given with all sincerịty. The question is whether your culture is prompted by the urge to promote universal good and universal happiness, whether 't urges man to raise himself from the plane of self-interest to the plane of universal interest, whether your culture is capable of kindling the ray of hope for all in the surrounding darkness of ignorance and sorrow. You have to consider whether your culture has been sincerely making efforts to raise man from the mundane plane to the spirituai plane. If your culture sincerely answers to these questions in the affirmative, then you can undoubtedly claim that your culture is the best of all. Then your culture is really entitled to claim to be the culture of the whole world. That culture alone can occupy the sovereign throne in the monarchy of cultures which these broad and high ideals, and which may lead man to the climax of spiritual development.
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