God is the seed, which has expressed itself as all this. But this fact, so deeply implanted in the hearts of every Indian for centuries, has been overlaid by veils of doubt, and man has lost the courage and the energy that faith in God had given him for so long. The fascination for Western fashions of thought weakened the belief in one’s religion; that led to the giving up of the disciplines which shaped one’s daily life; this in turn led to deterioration in moral standards; this has bred misery, disunity, hatred and disgrace. It is time to open one’s eyes to the tragedy and retrace the steps. The saints and seers of this land never spoke lightly or acted irreverently. They always had in view the good of the generations. When they invested some places as holy and named some days as sacred, they also prescribed the rules and ceremonials to be observed by pilgrims and spiritual aspirants so that time, expense and effort could be used for the expansion of love and the education of the instincts and impulses. The object of every rule was to bring the realisation of the Atma, as one’s Reality, a few steps nearer. For the Atma in the individual is the Atma in all; Shivoham is the Truth; and the Truth alone can make man free and full of Bliss.