Indian Tradition

Indian tradition is based on values and out of 100 crore people hardly anyone knows the real meaning of values. They all feel proud when they hear or read sentences like “Indian tradition is the best tradition in the world” But when it comes to serving the country, they all engross in their own work. People pose to be patriotic but they have their own axe to grind.

According to Albert Einstein “Try not to be a man of success but rather try to be the man of values.”

What are values? Values consist of responsibility, integrity, commitment and patriotism. This is the base of Indian culture. Most of the persons say that they are good because they don’t cheat, they don’t lie, they don’t steal etc. but that doesn’t make them good. Remember a person becomes good when he actually does good rather than not doing wrong.

Let’s talk about today’s generation. A survey of high school principals was happened in 1964 and asked this question – What are the main problem among your students? The answer was

• Not doing homework
• Not respecting property
• Throwing papers in class
• Running through the halls

The same survey questioned in 2004. The answers were pretty shocking

• Abortion
• AIDS
• Rape
• Drugs
• Murder
• Guns in school
• Alcohol

But nobody ever tried to understand why our generation following the western culture. If we don’t learn values from our teachers and parents, then from where do we learn? And when they don’t teach us values, we pick them up by default from T.V and other undesirable sources. No wonder society gets messed up. A teacher who doesn’t teach values, doesn’t deserve to be teaching our kids.

Before we point our fingers at the younger generation, let’s evaluate who is to be blamed. We should remember that values and virtues are not hereditary, they are learnt. We need to get our priorities right.

We know that western culture is spoiling the peace and amity of our country. Our younger generation are being swayed away by this. So, before our country turn into hell we should teach values to our kids, to make our country “Bird of gold”