Inspired from The Speech of Nagavara Ramarav Narayan Murthy that he had given at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Institution of Management.
Actually, many of us are having with wrong beliefs and prejudices that Western Countries have bad culture indeed. But There are so many things that we really want to learn from them. So, let me talk about what are things that we should learn from west.
Before I am going to tell something about this I would like to memorize one 'Sanskrit Shok'
ॐ असतो मा सद्गमय ।
तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय ।
मृत्योर्मा अमृतं गमय ।
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥
तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय ।
मृत्योर्मा अमृतं गमय ।
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥
The Meaning of second line is O God, Not keep me in the darkness of ignorance but lead me towards the light of knowledge. spread some light of real knowledge and I should keep away myself from all the wrong beliefs, darkness and lurking lure. Moreover, Shree Sumatinath also talked about his ideas and values of humanity. He says:
......Shree
Sumatinath....
As an Indian, I am feeling proud to be a part of India and you also feel the same. We know that India has a vivid and fabulous culture having with largest democracy in the world. we can see diversity in religion, caste and creed but in all these we find unity there. There are two pillars of the culture value system "Loyal To Family" and "Loyal To Community". We are not following second pillar and that is the tragedy of our country that we forget our duty, our responsibility to our country. unfortunately, our attitude towards family life is not reflected in our attitude towards community behavior. We are not showing much interest for social good and that's why we have evils like, throw garbage, littering the streets, corruption. we are apathetic to the common good. In the West the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia New Zealand they are responsible to their community as well as their family. We are having with wrong belief about their culture and about their living styles.
I have to say very firmly that they are far more better than us. There are many points that may prove that we lacking in such matters. like, The Primary difference between the west and us is that, there, people have a much better social orientation. They care more for the society than we do. Further, they generally sacrifice more for the society than us. Life becomes more pleasurable because of this and this is where we need to learn from them.
I would like to talk more thing about them.
in the west there is respect for the public good. For instance, parks free of litter, clean streets, public toilets free of graffiti while on the contrary , in India, we keep our house very clean and water our gardens everyday, but when we go outside we spit wherev we like, we throw
''Let me be shown your virtuous path;
Enlighten me, my ignorance cure;
Under a dark cloud I badly sinned;
Drive it off to clear the sky, my Good Wind;
Again I beg to make me pure;
The smoke of ill will darkens the light;
The oil of good will burns it bright;
For my salvation from lurking lure."
As an Indian, I am feeling proud to be a part of India and you also feel the same. We know that India has a vivid and fabulous culture having with largest democracy in the world. we can see diversity in religion, caste and creed but in all these we find unity there. There are two pillars of the culture value system "Loyal To Family" and "Loyal To Community". We are not following second pillar and that is the tragedy of our country that we forget our duty, our responsibility to our country. unfortunately, our attitude towards family life is not reflected in our attitude towards community behavior. We are not showing much interest for social good and that's why we have evils like, throw garbage, littering the streets, corruption. we are apathetic to the common good. In the West the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia New Zealand they are responsible to their community as well as their family. We are having with wrong belief about their culture and about their living styles.
I have to say very firmly that they are far more better than us. There are many points that may prove that we lacking in such matters. like, The Primary difference between the west and us is that, there, people have a much better social orientation. They care more for the society than we do. Further, they generally sacrifice more for the society than us. Life becomes more pleasurable because of this and this is where we need to learn from them.
I would like to talk more thing about them.
in the west there is respect for the public good. For instance, parks free of litter, clean streets, public toilets free of graffiti while on the contrary , in India, we keep our house very clean and water our gardens everyday, but when we go outside we spit wherev we like, we throw
(Work-cited - http://greenmesg.org/mantras_slokas/vedas-om_asato_ma_sadgamaya.php)
