Succumb not to imitation

Succumb not to imitation

Sadhu TL Vaswani urges the youth of India to not succumb to the attractions of foreign countries and imitate their lifestyles.

Be creative! Be not imitative! A new creation is the call of the spirit of the future. A new creation—not imitation!

Shakti is creative. Imitation is weakness. If you are to go forward, release the creative shakti within you.

There is a little story of a man who, having seen a smith plunge red hot iron to cool it, applied the same treatment to himself. He suffered from fever, one day, and he plunged himself into a pool of the cool water! He died! So, we have the saying: “Fools kill themselves with analogies!”

There is abroad, today, a cult of pride and comfort, a cult of decadence. To its attractions succumb, today, so many of the youths of India. They need a message of the simple life. For in simplicity is strength as in imitation is weakness. And simplicity flowers into sacrifice.

India has a genius, an individuality, a soul of her own. To that must she be true if she would re-arise and go again upon her great mission to humanity.

Not imitation but creative renovation—is the task to which the youth of India are called.

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