Education gives the masses ability to read
But not the ability to decide what to read
Reading injudiciously will not refine the mind
Such reading is apt to corrupt the mind.
Wise learning is judicious forgetting,
Wise saving is careful spending,
Wise cultivation is timely harvesting,
Wise production is least wasting.
Education without cultivation of morality
Has nothing but self- serving utility.
All corruption is due to lack of integrity,
The value of education has lost its validity.
Better it is to dare mighty things in high spirits
Than to take rank with those poor spirits
Who dare not much out of fear of failure
And make no gain by bewaring of failure.
All men are equal is a proposition
Which in real terms has opposition
From all those who want discrimination
On all counts like religion and denomination.
Merit should be the sole criterion for a reward;
Otherwise it would be an unworthy award,
There are many hunters for a transient fame;
If it is earned by foul means, it is a shame.
Ambition is bad in a field
Which no ground will yield
To a contender for a position
Without facing much opposition.
“The minority must live at the mercy of the majority”;
This precept has what authority?
The minority has equal rights as the majority;
Let them live together without any animosity.
There are truths, pleasant and unpleasant;
Speak not truths that are unpleasant.
This is nothing but diplomacy;
It has absolutely no legitimacy.
In modern society profit is the only motive
That prompts men in any field to be active.
Values and dignity have no place;
Obsession with consumerism is common-place