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Leading A Spiritual Life

India, we need a parallel intellectual campaign. It is this
campaign that I have termed intellectual crusades.
If anyone asks me about the model of intellectual
crusades, I would say that I have dedicated myself
single-mindedly to this very task. We use various means
of communication for this purpose, such as the print
and electronic media, conferences, seminars and other
places of intellectual activity.

Here, I would like to refer to an incident that
illustrates my way of working. Once, when I was at the
Geneva airport, I happened to meet an Indian lady. She
had been working on a cultural project for the past two
months and was now returning to India. While sharing
her experiences of Switzerland, she immediately took
to complaining. I intervened and politely said that you
consider the cow a sacred animal in the ritual sense. But
you have rather to follow the cow culture in your real
life. The cow is a natural ‘industry’ which converts what
is non-milk into milk. This is a demonstration by nature
telling humans to adopt the cow culture by converting
negativity into positivity. She instantly understood this
concept and said that she would abandon the complaint
culture and maintain her positive thinking in every
situation.
This is what I have termed intellectual crusades.
That is, giving an intellectual dose to people on every
occasion, which makes them better human beings, and
consequently better members of society.

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