Passage 6

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Where then will he find the time to read the 18 Purāṇas? Paropakārāya puṇyāya, pāpāya parapīḍanaṃ: this is the essence of the eighteen Purāṇas. That is Help ever hurt never. If the body is wounded, you can go to a doctor, put on ointment, put on a bandage and have the wound healed. ‘If the foot slips there is no loss; if the tongue slips, it is hell,’ they said. A wound to the heart is seen by no one. So we must not wound anyone's mind.

More than that, Bhārata is the land that has taken the lead and given the ideal.

Famed in continent after continent, the motherland that bore great souls; that drove out the warriors of the West, the land of battle that won its freedom; in music, in letters and in the sciences the divine land that showed the power of the intellect; winning great renown for its learning, the land of Bharata that showed its brilliance: wondrous with the arts of painting is the land of Bharata where you were born: to guard the honour of Mother Bharata, the whole responsibility is yours, devotees!

What service are we doing for such a Mother Bharata? The welfare of the land is the welfare of the body. After Rāvaṇa was slain, everyone gathered round Rāma: ‘Swami! You may stay right here in the city of Laṅkā and rule,’ and so they went on, describing the splendour of Laṅkā. Why leave a Laṅkā so full of splendour? Rule it yourself,’ they said. Then: ‘Jananī janmabhūmiś ca svargād api garīyasī.’ Foolish one, the land where I was born and the mother who bore Me: for Me there are no others above these. I never longed for the joys and comforts of this city of Laṅkā. Even if one's mother is ugly, a mother is a mother. She is the true mother. Never abandon the mother who bore you. So too with the land of one's birth. We must not abandon the land of our birth either. That is what the young must learn today. The young today have wholly lost the faith that says, “My country, my motherland.” Breathing in through their nostrils the air that blows in Bhārata, drinking the sacred water of the Gaṅgā, enjoying the sacred Vedas, Śāstras, Itihāsas and Purāṇas, they follow a foreign outlook.