Passage 4

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In plain words

To suit this, many kinds of modern conveniences are coming up today. You all know: now cell phones are coming in. You are delighted that with these you can talk easily with anyone, anywhere. Thinking that one can get things done through them without any trouble, the government too is encouraging their use. But through such gadgets and gimmicks, the intellects of students are going down the wrong road. They are misusing them. Things like these lead students into sin and ruin them. They drown in Māyā even innocents who know nothing. Students today are very intelligent. We must teach them the kind of learning that suits what matters to them and what is needed in daily life. But, swayed by Western culture, they are trying to teach students a learning that breeds desires beyond all measure. Our culture of Bhārata is most excellent, and has stood as an ideal for all. But the people of Bhārata are forgetting their own culture, becoming slaves to foreigners and learning what they teach. They behave with no distinction of woman and man. How exemplary was the conduct of our ancient women of Bhārata! From time without beginning, the culture of Bhārata has been showing the world the path of light. But today even elders do not know what culture really is. In ancient times, virtuous women and men made many sacrifices and kept the culture of Bhārata standing. Hariścandra, who ruled the earth ever firm in the majesty of Satya, was born in this very land of Bhārata.

She who brought her husband back to life when his life had gone, Sāvitrī, was she not a wife of Bhārata! She who by the power of her Satya put out the forest fire, Candramatī, was she not a holy woman! She who leapt into the fire-pit for her chastity as a wife of noble line, Sītā, was she not born of the earth of Bhārata! She who in her wrath burned the arrogant hunter to ashes, Damayantī, was she not a woman of Bhārata!