Passage 3

In English

The sacred texts of India have abiding, vitality

The culture of India has been exhorting people to learn this lesson and practise this discipline but, the glitter of the West with its scientific advance and technological superiority have enslaved the brain and hems of Indians and they pay no heed to the Voice of the Mother which warns and teaches. They are like the dull-witted inhabitants of the Gangetic basin who dig wells on the banks of the holy river - instead of drawing the sacred water itself for their needs! You should pledge yourself to protect, practise and promote the ancient time-tested culture of your country. It is not an accident that you are born in this land. A sacred responsibility is resting on your shoulders. The greatness of India is something unique; so is your good fortune to be living at a time when it is being fast recognised all over the world by anxiety ridden, fear torn, humans. A word about; Poets who read poems now. According to tradition only the who had intuitively cognised the hymns in. praise of God and the Divine in man were revered as Poets or . Of course, or sages were honoured as poets, and the appellation was not given to 'poets.' could be called , because, '' meant he who understood the past, realised the present and educated people for the future. Since the poet has a purified consciousness, he could pronounce impartial judgement on the past, he could lay his finger on the ills and 'wells' of the present and he could recommend the paths for progress in the future. People could place faith in their words and listen to their call. They would not mislead or misinterpret. Genuine poets are aware of the three periods of time, can roam in their imagination over the three worlds and be ever fixed in consciousness with the three Divine Entities of the Trinity. The , , Epics and other sacred texts of India have abiding vitality and validity, only because their authors had such unquestioned authority to guide and interpret the Age 'in which they lived and composed their works.