Leading A Spiritual Life
English book, p. 110
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
and at the same time enable you to opt for the positive features and ignore those features that strike you as being negative. We Require Intellectual Crusades The whole structuring of formal education is based on the concept of making oneself qualified in the professional market, rather than on making oneself a good member of society. W hat has gone wrong with India? Before Independence, everyone had high hopes of freedom, but now they feel that something more is required to fulfil their dreams. Our most pressing need is to discover this missing element and re-plan our strategy accordingly. This is the most urgent task before our nation. The genesis of the problem is that we failed to differentiate between pre-Independence and postIndependence India. The failure in recognising this situation is the basic cause of all our problems. We are the victims not of any kind of internal or external conspiracy but of our own misguided planning. In preIndependence India our struggle was based on our political rights rather than on our social duties. The

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