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SAFEGAURD AGE-OLD SPIRITUAL VALUES
India is proud to own a vast treasure of spiritual wisdom. It is a rich legacy handed down to posterity over centuries in the form of religious texts and exquisite idols. These constitute our wealth by virtue of which our country has come to be regarded as the temple and repository of culture and learning by the world. It is the duty of every Indian to safeguard the sanctity of the shrines and religious institutions at all costs.
While Indians are giants in the field of spiritualism, they are dwarfs in politics as compared with powerful nations. "We can never outgrow our foreign counterparts politically and it is therefore necessary to maintain our traditionally cultural and spiritual values. "India can win over conquerors culturally and not politically," says a non-Indian
historian.
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In spite of their ancient and enviable religious heritage, instead of preserving the glorious treasure of culture bequeathed to them, people hanker after ideas imported from the West in the mistaken notion that whatever learnt from the West is the best. Indian have neglected the scriptures and religious texts and given up rituals and other ceremonies. The irony is that what they have discarded as useless has come to be regarded as precious by us.
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The Vedas, the treasure-trove of Hindu religion, tradition and culture, containing codes of righteous conduct, were taught by God Himself thousands of years ago and have been preserved carefully and handed over to us. They are absolutely essential for building moral integrity and being eternal, the norms are applicable to all persons even to this day.
The present day problems of stress and strain stem out of the mistaken notion about religious duties. Those who decry our sacred heritage would hence do well to inquire into the different aspects of religion than wasting their energy in their attempts to censure those who sincerely practice them, knowing their value.
Institutions engaged in the analytical study of these divine statements have been fascinated by the wealth of information, touching all aspects of society as well as human behavior. Digging into the mine of Vedic knowledge has resulted in unearthing several secrets, which the scientific talent has discovered at a later stage.
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