In English
The Right and the Duty are both fundamental
Men repeat the word 'duty' day after day and during all hours of the day, without any clear conception of what that word means. Duty arises when there are two people, you and another. Education has lost its meaning when it does not instruct what an individual should render to society, how he has to control his ego for ensuring the common good. One individual has the right to exercise freedom, only so long as he does not obstruct the freedom which is equally the right of another. Honouring the right of the other man to freedom is your duty. The right and the duty are both fundamental. Nevertheless, we find everyone fostering and insisting on his own rights and paying no consideration to the rights of others. We find in society, around us, millions of brothers and sisters subjected to harm by this callousness. There are 500,000 villages in India where people live in poverty, ignorance and disease. Rulers forming the Government have drawn up various plans to raise their standard of living, but it is wrong to leave it all to them. It cannot be done by the efforts of government alone. The hearty co-operation, help and good-will of the villagers themselves are essential. A single flower cannot make a garland; a single individual cannot set right the wrong of ages.