In English
Festivals are designed to promote lofty feelings
The tainted life of man has to be purified by expelling the pollutants within man. What is pure and sacred has to be taken in. This duty has been forgotten. If you want to fill the stomach with wholesome and delicious food, you have to empty it of what is impure. One cannot relish good food when the stomach is full of bad stuff. This is borne out by every one's daily experience. Hence every one should get rid of all the bad thoughts, evil intentions and bad feelings in him and fill the mind with good thoughts and noble feelings. All festivals have been designed to promote such lofty feelings and not for indulging in feasting and revelry. From ancient times has upheld high spiritual ideals and proclaimed the principle of universal well-being. "" (May the people of all the worlds be happy). The ancient sages led lives based on these sacred ideals. These ideals have almost disappeared today. Immersed in endless worldly desires people have become strangers to the Divine.