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A single lamp can give the light of a million lamps if only someone ventures to light lamp from lamp. But the problem is who will volunteer to fight darkness.
Look at the tiny earthen lamp that keeps awake all night to gather in itself the darkness of all around, and look at us who snuff the light out of so many lives to fulfill our selfish desire to light out own life! How shall we extinguish evils lurking in our own house when we feel worried about our lamp dispelling the darkness of the neighbour's house too? How shall we get on with honest endeavor when at the very outset we are obsessed with the desire to prevent others doing what we ourselves could not do? How petty of man to think that since he himself is bad, no one else should be allowed to be good! How can we create between man and man goodwill, harmony of thoughts, and emotional co-existence when our ego refuses to bend, when our self-interests are boundless, when we are unwilling to acknowledge our shortcomings to dispel misunderstandings, when we are incapable of understanding others and putting up with them, and when there is no way to discover a positive solution to problems? What is needed is to clean the way to the dark alleys so that the future generations do not deflect from their goal. Let us remember that life is not made up of material things alone. Have weapons alone ever produced good soldiers? Has a good school by itself turned out good men? Has anyone ever fulfilled his objectives through others' recommendations? There is certainly something besides all these which widens the scope of excellence of human virtues. In the laboratory of life we may not aspire to undertake mighty tasks, nor have ambitious dreams, but we should march forward with small resolutions like the tiny lamps saying we shall stay awake all night to guard light. ------------------------------------------------
Absence of right thinking results in arbitrariness of behaviour.
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Who will
guard culture? Who will cause ideals to emerge? Who will take the lead in
establishing life values? Arduous is the journey to light; arduous is the
practice of spiritual lustre and austerity.