Book Title: Mysteries of Life and Eternal Bliss
Author(s): Anantprasad Jain
Publisher: Tirthakar Mahavir Smruti Kendra Samiti Lakhnou UP
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I am really opposed to the present tendency of the Indian Govt. in overflooding India with pictures of lions and tigers on stamps, coins, currency notes and state emblems or ensigns etc. After a certain period of time ( i.e. in the long run these figures will imperceptibly create the same characterstics in the citizens of India and they will begin to exibit all had qualities of fraud, deceit, ferocity and all other methods of the socalled uncivilised world. I have found, all persons or societies, or states, with the emblem of lions or tigers, finally getting in perpetual trouble and disintegrate or vanish or so.
This should be stopped and planned properly. It is foolish to think that all such things are casual and sentimental and have no effect. They have the most vital, slow but steady and permanent effect on human brain and conversion of the molecular formations and construction with subsequent effect-good or bad as the case may be; and this continues from generation to generation and becomes traditional, Govt. of India or any country must exhibit emblems or ensigns etc. which may create good effects on its citizens,