In English
When the remain unharmed, that is to say, when the vedic scholars are unharmed, the Veda will remain ever-green in the heart of people. That is the real establishment of . You may ask, “Well. The Lord has incarnated. Then why should the world be torn by strife and stricken with sorrow?” Why, even when Lord was here, there was war and wickedness, strife, and sorrow. The husk will have to be pulled out, the pure saved always from the impure. The present suffering is due mainly to the lapses in discipline among the professed followers of the vedic path, their disregard for the morality laid down in the scriptures, and their absence of faith in the ancient scriptures. What use can a blind man make of a lamp, however bright it may be? You may ask why and vedic scholars are passing through hard times now. They are mostly hungry, ill-clad, and homeless; that being the reason no one comes forward to join vedic schools. Vedic schools () are becoming defunct. But I want to tell you that the and learned men have come to this pass because they have themselves lost faith in the . They are like the proverbial cat that is loyal to two homes and is denied food and comfort in both. The have one eye on secular matters and secular studies and another on the spiritual. Let them be fixed in that faith, faith in the . Then the Veda will keep them happy. Because if the Veda cannot make a person happy, what else can? Like the hotel keeper who goes to a druggist for a pill when he gets a headache, while that same druggist goes to the same hotel for a cup of coffee when he gets a headache, the West comes to the East for mental peace and the East is enamoured of the West for what it considers necessary for mental peace!