ELITES SHOULD COME FORWARD
TO MANAGE THE RELIGIOUS SET-UP
Author
Pandit Sriram Sharma Acharya
Translated by: Smt Sumati Pandey
Revised by: ShambhudassFirst Edition
2000
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MANAGE THE RELIGIOUS SET-UP
Progress of an individual and the society depends on their
right thinking and right way of working. A needy man
can be offered some immediate help but such support
does not bring about a permanent solution. Medicines
alone cannot cure a patient unless he also exercises self
restraints in his overall way of living. If we follow only the
treatment part of prescription and ignore the restrictions
advised by the physician, the disease will continue to re-
cur again and again. Therefore just offering doles to the
poor is not the real solution of poverty. By giving food,
we can, temporarily satisfy a poor man’s hunger, but it is
not at all possible to go on feeding such a man indefi-
nitely. Poverty will vanish only when the poor become
industrious and put an effort to earn their livelihood. This
holds good for all problems. Selfhelp is the real help.
Mental sickness is the root cause of the miseries and
deprivations in the life. The only remedy is to reform and
refine the thinking process of man. In fact there cannot
be a nobler task than purifying one’s thinking and cor-
recting one's erroneous beliefs and wrong notions. Ac-
quiring knowledge and awareness of soul and God and
imparting these to others are the noblest of boons. The
Brahmins of old use to take a vow to do so throughout
their life, were respected as God. Today such persons