Our Children, Our Future -2. Swami Chinmayananda

31/12/2016

2.1
This future design may not come in our own life time, as it needs a long period of time for the changes to come.

2.2
Change it will, but what kind of change is determined by the growing generation. Therefore, when we say that today’s children are our future, we mean that we must strive now to mold the children to think correctly, to judge rightly, and to have the heroism to live up to those convictions.

2.3
Today, Bharatham  is in this sad condition because in the past the children seem to been neglected.

2.4
In the past I feel they must have been neglected because of the texture of the people I see around today.

2.5
There seems to be no intellectuals in our country, and a country without intellectuals has no future.

2.6
All the progressive countries in the world are such because their progress is guided by, decided by, thought of, and planned by the intellectuals of the generation.

2.7
In our country today, however, wherever I look, I only see animal human-beings, extremely selfish, never caring for other people or having a vision for the country, a love for the nation or a love for the people.

2.8
These higher ideals have all been dried up.

2.9

We seem to be like cattle – each one wanting to fill up his own belly, and perhaps breed vigorously!

2.10

So the population increases and all the consequent problems arise.

To be continued ...