PARAMPARA

If you go out now with tika on your fore head, and someone asks you why you are wearing it, you will feel ashamed because you have no good answer.

So, applying a tika cheerfully is difficult these days. Of course a simpleton can do it. He has no fear of others.

But he is doing it not because he knows its purpose but because he thinks it is the thing to do.

When the links of real knowledge are broken, the outward symbols of it become difficult to carry.

Then a certain tragedy results. Those with intelligence keep away.

And a traditional knowledge remains meaningful only as long as intelligent people are involved in it.

It is interesting to see that whenever such a misfortune overwhelms a civilization, whenever it looses its connection with the past knowledge, the intellectuals drift away from it because they do not like to look foolish.  

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