REMEMBER, THE NATION MATTERS MORE THAN YOUR SELF-INTEREST

What more can I say, just this much, live for India. There is so much to do to build India. Stop exploiting the poor and the middle classes, O prosperous ones of our land, and, instead, serve all in the spirit that they are your very own, your flesh and blood, your heart and soul, the very essence of your being.

Doctors, do not think that you have acquitted yourselves well on your Hippocratic Oath if you are self-serving in profession in alliance with the medical barons who run posh private hospitals with grandiloquent claims and grander names but whose only intention is to squeeze money out of the pockets of the hapless patients in connivance with you all. Vivekananda will not forgive you.

Lawyers, do not tell a hundred lies to win cases for criminals justifying your action on the basis of your professional principle to win a case at any rate. Lying, bringing false witness and resorting to a host of other unscrupulous acts to further your narrow professional interests do not conduce to the well-being of our nation.

Brokers, do not think that there is no higher principle of karma operating that can punish you for your unscrupulous monetary transactions. There is a higher law for certain and it will take you to account for every act of treachery to the people of our glorious motherland. You are to be the safe-keeper of transaction, not its violator through dubious means that ruins the economic health of the nation.

Teachers, unto you belongs the most sacred task of generating shraddha (the intense mood of reverential pursuit of excellence even unto perfection) in your pupils who are the future of our nation, a shraddha akin to what Nachiketa had, as is depicted in the Kathopanishad, when he defied the snares of the world, the ephemeral pleasures, to attain to the highest spiritual perfection in the knowledge of the Self.

And, now my friends who are in business. Unto you lies the heavy responsibility of eradicating poverty from this land and not filling up your own coffers nor pandering to the vanities of your immediate kith and kin while squeezing the life-blood of the nation. What you draw from the nation in terms of acquired wealth, you must give back in equal measure to the nation and not by way of an insignificant sum in much-publicised 'laudable charity'. What you have in your possession, truly belongs to the people of this land and you cannot lay exclusive claim to it. Also, your means of earning must be fair and your profit-making not bordering on profiteering. How can you enjoy luxuries in life when hundreds of millions of your fellow countrymen, who pay for your wealth, live lives of abject poverty and misery? Reflect and turn on a new leaf. Serve brothers, serve, do not exploit.

And finally, our worst offenders, our politicians who are running a circus in Parliament these days. What to speak of you, brothers, and why not, sisters too, you need a holy dip daily in the Ganga to cleanse off your accumulated sins but one shudders to think of the state of the holy river burning with your horrendous sins! I charge you with destroying our nation, the hopes of a billion people, their dreams, their lives, their past, present and future. You have to account for your karma, I say, you cannot escape the ire of the very God who is the author and preserver of our beloved motherland. Corrupt souls of our motherland, it is time, indeed, to rectify your horrific stance, your despicable character, else, history will avenge the wrongs you perpetrate daily on a desolate, destitute people. Beware! Rectify! Save your hereafter. My best wishes, yet, go with you, for you, the benighted of all, need them the most. Jai Hind!