Passage 11

In English

Units of the Organisation are taking up, more and more service activities in the villages. The villages have preserved, at least to some extent, the ideals of Devotion to God, Brotherhood of Man, Compassion to the Disabled etc. You have to direct them on the methods of sanitation and help them for literacy and means of self-reliant livelihood, supplementing their meagre incomes. You have to serve the villages during festivals and fairs; also during droughts, floods, fires and other calamities. The problems of people in cities and towns are much more difficult and urgent. They are fast losing hold of all things that distinguish man from animals. Morality, virtue, mercy, charity, brotherhood, Love - these are becoming rarer and rarer in individual and social life. Fear, suspicion, rivalry, greed - these are making city life a nightmare. So, there is greater need of in the Cities. Villagers too are catching the infection from the city-dwellers and from the books, newspapers and films that the City people produce. So, by means of and the influence of your own lives, you have to modify the habits and behaviour, the ways of thinking, of City dwellers, so that they may have less fear and anxiety and more peace and contentment. You have to plan out a programme and dedicate yourself for fulfilling it.