Passage 3

In English

The scholars and who are delivering these lectures may be very learned, very experienced, very old but they can only point direction; they cannot do the walking for you. The walking must be done by you. You must proceed along the path that is indicated. These elders may be compared to guide posts. They can simply point out that if you go along a particular way, you will reach this destination, and that if you go along another way, you will reach another destination, and so on, but they cannot tread the path for you. If you look at the conditions today, the Government is not in a position to introduce reform in the lives of the people, because the kind of reform needed is not there in the rulers themselves, and the people are not in a position to infuse that kind of enthusiasm in the rulers.