In English
India has been teaching since ages the message of the spirit and the means to gain and ensure equanimity and joy. She has stood forth as the preceptor of the world for centuries. The prayer that she has taught her people Is: (May all people everywhere be happy). This is the consummation of Vedhic thought since time Immemorial. Such wholesome ideals were propagated and fostered by the rulers of this land, the seers and (God-centred persons) who guided the populace, and the chaste mothers who reared generations in the atmosphere of spiritual effort. But due to vicissitudes in the country's history, when the people were subjected to pressures and counter-pressures, these ideals suffered a set-back. The abstractions of faith received concrete form and got crystallised into specific identifiable names and forms. Each new attitude or aptitude, each new concretisation, became a special sect and every theory enveloped itself in its own shell.