VIRTUE , NOT VALUE

today , i have a news of a seminar on human values held by UPTU LKO and Kabir Shanti Mission . i take the pretext and would like to say , nay , not human values but virtues . see what value means , -the worth , desirability , utility , worth to be paid in term of money , place , post or position ; value for market , any market . is man marketable ? yes , western people call themselves intellectuals and modern , talk of human values and we Indian ( not all but many ) follow them and talk rather more on values . on other hand , our Indian culture talks on virtue (western too , but we do not want to follow them because of not being easier edition to understand and follow .) now see , what virtue means , - moral excellence , uprightness , goodness patience , chastity , an angelic being of celestial order . now we can easily decide whether our educationist need value or virtue . i say , both , first virtue and then value . we are already . giving value education . all formal and technical education is value education and what we are talking of human values that is virtue not value . value is paid , where virtue sacrifice ,
we should be aware how our intellectuals are enamourd of westernism , thy call it standard for them Kalidas is Shakespeare of india Samudragupt , Napoleon ; SardarPatel , Bismarck. we recognize Vivekanand and Tagore when they did so .
that is why i ask my teachers to read , be scholars , go through your country , its history , culture and scriptures . we read comments on Gita done by some one in Oxford . we read , made easy , i.e. Ram Katha by Narendra Kohily not the original Ram Charit Manas by Tulasidas or Ramayan by Valmiki .we are loosing our Indian way of thinking .
by the grace of God we possess all the factors that go to make any country great and strong ,to say ; the material wealth , human resource , intellectual power but due to lack of national will and feeling of self confidence we not making the expected progress .we are second to none in all these matters and now time has proved it . national will and national unity is the demand of the hour . that needs to be added to our young people is virtue which has power to root out the great evil in the different forms of corruption , viz. futility , lack of living faith , the drift into loose morality , greed , financial irresponsibility , bad temper , self -opinionated and obstinate individualism violence , suicide , impatience reverence for life , reverence for public and state property , the exploitation of sex , debasing of language , commercializing of religion superstitions , venality and leg-pulling hypocrisy dishonesty caste and class wars , falsification and exploitation of poor and hapless . all said above ,can be only overcome by a virtuous man . we need one and need to grow develop and produce for emerging NEW INDIA . only words will not do . let us see and try ,