SOLAR ENERGY.
The Dry Rain of Sun Rays. The Solar Energy.
In monsoon we see the rain-water raining from the sky
but we do not bother to 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)
(ii) deficient diet;
(III)
(iii) inertia . . . They are not interested in their own welfare.
(IV)
They don't appreciate modern sanitary methods.
(V)
They don't want to exert themselves beyond scratching
(VI)
their farms or doing such labour.
(VII)
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.
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