Bhagawan: It is most unfortunate that this trend is on the rise. This is not good at any point of time anywhere in the world. You are born in this society. So you grow up, educate yourself, make money, name and fame in this society. Only through this society you could get your clothing, food and shelter. Have you come up on your own without the society you are in? Could you make a career for yourself without its support? Should you not express your sense of gratitude to it for all it has done for you?
Man should never be an ungrateful creature. The best way to be grateful is to serve. You know, our people put in greater effort and work more sincerely abroad. While they are here, they don't show the same spirit and the same zeal in their work. They are not so sincere and industrious here as they are in foreign countries. In fact, the emoluments they get here by doing their best will be the same as they get abroad, a fact they fail to realise. To some extent, parents also are responsible for this problem of brain drain. They don't properly inculcate in children the values of work, patriotism, sacrifice, love and gratitude.
So it is your fundamental duty to serve the society in which you are born and brought up. You see many a foreigner coming here. They learn lots of things from this sacred land of your birth, whereas our people forget what they know. Some of our people are even inferior to locals and natives of foreign countries in respect of observing traditions. What for is our education? Is it for the decline of human values? Janani janmabhumi s'ca svargadapi gariyasi. Rama observed "Mother and motherland are greater than Heaven."
(From the book "Satyopanisad" Vol. 1 by Prof. K. Anil Kumar)
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