Tuesday, July 2, 2019

The Foundational Emblems of Indian Culture: Shikha and Sutra (Translation of a discourse of Revered Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya)

(Post 25)

(http://literature.awgp.org/akhandjyoti/2004/Nov_Dec/v1.ShikhaSutra_II)

1. industriousness
2. humility
3. austerity
4. orderliness
5. cooperation
6. wisdom
7. integrity of character
8. sense of responsibility
9. courage

Orderliness corresponds to ideal management and disciplined organization of time, talents and other mental, physical and materialistic resources; punctuality, and, neatness and tidiness of the body, house and workplace, are primary necessities of orderliness.


Cooperation means wholehearted sharing of joys and pains with family, friends and colleagues.

As some of you might have experienced in family-life or on social fronts, it requires a good amount of patience and tolerance to work harmoniously in any collective setting.

Benevolence and zeal to work for collective welfare of the society are its obvious reflections.