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mother, this means treating her with respect, with love,<br />
with patience. I know that when we are young, we tend to<br />
take our parents for granted, or to become frustrated at<br />
their attempts to teach us. We must not do this. We must<br />
find, in our hearts, her own blood and her own life. For<br />
that is how connected we are.<br />
For Mother Nature and Mother Earth this love and respect<br />
means protection. Mother Earth has given us all that we<br />
need to sustain our lives. And we are simultaneously<br />
destroying Her. Let us treat our Earth as a Mother. If our<br />
own mother were sick, we would not let her simply suffer,<br />
decay and die. We would fight tenaciously to bring her<br />
back to her full state of health and glory. Let us give the<br />
same to the real Mother. We must not pollute her or waste<br />
her. We must nurse her back to health.<br />
hours each day being Westernly perfect. Spend at least<br />
one hour being Indianly devoted. Then, you will see the<br />
real magic.<br />
Maha Laxmi is the Goddess of Wealth. We pray to Her for<br />
prosperity. Yet, our real wealth lies in our heritage, in our<br />
roots, in the ancient wisdom of our scriptures. Let us not<br />
forsake the everlasting richness of our culture in favor of<br />
transient material possessions. Before we pray for more<br />
wealth, let us treasure the wealth we have already been<br />
given. This is the real prosperity.<br />
Your Mother-Tongue<br />
This is the language of your soul. Your brain may think in<br />
English; your mouth may speak English. But your soul<br />
speaks Hindi, or Gujarati or Punjabi or Tamil or Kannad<br />
or Sindhi...Do not cut yourself off from the words of your<br />
ancestors, for much of the wisdom and clarity is lost in<br />
translation.<br />
Mother Land<br />
Be Western (if you live in the West) when it comes to<br />
professional excellence, but be Indian in your domestic life,<br />
and in your heart. The West has a great deal to teach in<br />
A dog does not have to learn how to bark; a cat does not<br />
terms of external perfection — especially in professional,<br />
have to learn how to meow. A cow does not forsake her<br />
business and engineering arenas. But, we must not lose<br />
own natural “moo” for the chirping of the birds. It is<br />
our souls in this attainment of external success. Our bodies<br />
wonderful that you are all learning English and French<br />
and our brains may be in the West. But our spirit must<br />
and Spanish and German. These languages will be of a<br />
stay with our Mother land.<br />
great help to you in your academic and professional lives.<br />
But, your mother-tongue is the thread that connects you<br />
How to do this? First, have a “happy hour” in the evenings.<br />
to your roots, to your family, to your true essence.<br />
But make it an Indian “happy hour.” Make it an hour whose<br />
Do not sever this connection, for it is the tube through<br />
happiness lasts even when the 60 minutes are up, a<br />
which your life-blood flows. How can you truly know a<br />
happiness without a hangover, a happiness that runs to<br />
culture, be part of a heritage, if you cannot speak its<br />
your soul, not just your bloodstream. The real happy hour<br />
language?<br />
is puja, Aarti, being with the family. You spend so many<br />
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