SHRI BALA SAHEB DEORAS REPLIES:

Ans. In fact this is a very delicate and difficult issue for the supporters of consolidation of Hindus. We have great pride of our Dharma and culture. Many of our things are worthy of feeling proud. The thinkers and philosophers of the world have given highest respect to the philosophy and values of life as propounded in India, and called them capable of providing a very valuable contribution to the world peace and welfare humanity. These values have proved to be true and worthwhile on the occasions of hard trials amidst attacks on our country and historical and political upheavels which continued for a long time. Naturally we feel that these ever- lasting life-principles and values should be protected at all cost.

But it is quite clear in our mind that while defending and keeping in tact this glory and self-respect, this type of thinking that all that is old is good and useful will not work. Not only this, our ancestors also had a clear vision about it, as it emphatically stated --

"One who drinks saline water simply because that well was constructed by his force-fathers, is coward and fool hardy."

This type of blind faith will not benefit any one. Hence there is no reason, no justification for sticking to the worn-out, obsolete, anti-social and time-discarded blind faiths, which will have to be abandoned. 

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