MAKE USE OF SOLAR ENERGY.

USE THE SOLAR ENERGY.

The Dry Rain of Sun Rays. The Solar Energy.

In monsoon we see the rain-water raining from the sky. 

We do not see the dry rain of sun rays raining from the sky all the year round.

It is said there are 180 working days out of 365, in a year  in New York due to weather conditions.

In India one can work round the year all the 365 days if he has the will to do so.

Our Sun Shines round the year. We have no such slogan “Make Hay when the Sun Shines.”

Our country enjoys pure Sun Energy pouring down on us, streaming down on us round the year, a down-pour of golden rays a sort of dry-rain falling raining which we have to stop to hold a bucket to fill it. 

But we don’t.  The Sun radiation is wasted on us unless we get ready to see it and use it for our welfare. 

We could be rich. We all could be rich. Most of all we could be free from worries of bread butter for our existence.

We have to attempt to base every mechanical process without exception on the free energy of the Sun.  Heating, Cooling, Cooking, Transport, Water-Pumping could be run directly or indirectly from this great source of energy of the Sun.  

Even an industry can be run with this. Millions of acre of land is empty and lying vacant in many parts of the country. Let us develop them into Sun-City to run our industry.

No originality develops unless one is free of worry of lodging boarding and daily means for existence. We would be the first nation to give our people a life of freedom to enable them to devote to their choice of field of art, science sport painting anything. Work as you like. No restriction, half day, full day a week at a time, one year on and one year off different times and different kinds of work in different towns and cities in different fields you wanted. 

We would be the first country to make our youth a self-directed free fellow to pursue his course of life without fear of fees food clothes or means of subsistence.  Already countries like Brazil Iceland Switzerland have turned their focus on this vernacular development.

Lest we might be late.  Let our Youth be free and see and feel the difference.

Vernacular Development. Uplift Villages.

Gandhiji’s thought on uplift of villages is similar to the principles of scientific socialism as advocated

In the African countries. Progress has to start from villages to higher ups. Our villages can be like the stars and planets in the galaxy because we would make them modern with all latest facility and knowledge of handling them.

THE REAL India lies in the 7,00,000 villages. If Indian civilization is to make its full contribution to the building up of a stable world order, it is this vast mass of humanity that has….to be made to live again.

We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip :

(i)           want of corporate sanitation ;

(ii)      deficient diet;

(ii)          inertia . . .

The villagers are not interested in their own welfare.

They don't appreciate modern sanitary methods. They don't want to exert themselves beyond scratching their farms or doing such labor as they are used to. These difficulties are real and serious. But they must not baffle us…

We must have an unquenchable faith in our mission. We must be patient with the people. We are ourselves novices in village work. We have to deal with a chronic disease. Patience and perseverance, if we have them, overcome mountains of difficulties. We are like nurses who may not leave their patients because they are reported to have an incurable disease.

Villages have suffered long from neglect by those who have had the benefit of education. They have chosen the city life. The village movement is an attempt to establish healthy contact with the villages by inducing those who are fired with the spirit of service to settle in them and find self-expression in the service of villagers.

Those who have settled in villages in the spirit of service are not dismayed by the difficulties facing them. They knew before they went that they would have to contend against many difficulties, including even sullenness on the part of villagers. Only those, therefore, who have faith in themselves and in their mission will serve the villagers and influence their lives.