Each one of us is a custodian of India's well-being and of the legacy that we will pass on to coming generations.
Interpretation
We all have a responsibility to care for our country and leave a positive legacy for the future.
This quote emphasizes the collective responsibility of individuals to safeguard the welfare of their nation, India in this context, and highlights the importance of contributing to a better future for the next generations. It speaks to the idea that each person's actions and values play a crucial role in shaping the legacy that will be inherited by those who come after us.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about environmental responsibility and sustainability.
A tradition I remember from my childhood was that when there was a wedding in any one family, the entire village shared the responsibility and contributed. Regardless of the caste or community, the bride became the daughter of not just a single family but of the entire village.
Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a welcoming home to so many birds and animals. There is a rhythm to this togetherness.
It is true that when you make a boy educated, it gives benefit to one family but when you make a girl educated, its benefit goes to two families. Another important fact is that the children of an educated woman do not remain uneducated.
An election is a collective call to wisdom and a collective call to action. It represents a renewal and a recommitment to the goals and hopes of a shared and egalitarian society. It represents the diverse and yet singular urges of the people and the Republic of India. This makes the very act of voting a sacred act.
The key to India's success is its diversity. Our diversity is the core that makes us so unique. In this land we find a mix of states and regions, religions, languages, cultures, lifestyles and much more. We are so different and yet so similar and united.
In India, knowledge has always been considered more valuable than power, fame or riches. In our tradition, educational institutions are respected as temples of learning.
And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.
Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.
Ever man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease - that of thinking.
Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.
The world is his who has money to go over it.
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
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