About some facts of Government of India

     I am most happy and grateful for the opportunity you have given me to meet you all this evening. As you know the Government of India and Provincial Governments concerned have taken great pains and incurred heavy expenditure this year to improve the approaches and also the localities where the sacred Budhist places are situated. The total amount spent may add up to a crore of rupees in the course of this year. That indicates the interest which the Government of India and the people of India are taking in Budhism and its sacred places.

   You have been good enough to mention some points which I shall hav looked into. I will try to see that as far as possible no complaints are left unattended. You have mentioned Bodha Gaya. I have been personally connected with Bodha Gaya affair for a pretty long time. More than 35 years ago a deputation of Budhists from j Ceylon and Burma came here. It wanted to have control of the Bodha Gay temple. AT that time, though the Congress had nothing to do with th Government , it took up the matter and appointed a committee to make suggestions as to how best the Bodha Gaya temple could be managed in the interest of all and to the satisfaction of the Budhists. The Committee, of which I happened to be Secretary at the time, recommended that the management of the temple should be placed in the hands of a committee on which Budhists as well as Hindus should be represented. That was because the Hindus also worshiped the BHudha . Their method of worship may differ from that of the Budhists but they held Lord Budha in great veneration as one of the Avatars. We could not do anything at the time as there was a Mahant in actual possession of the temple and he did not agree to part with his right. In 1937, however, when the Congress for the first time formed Government in Bihar, it took up the question of the appointment of a temple committee once again. Unfortunately, however, the Ministry lasted only a short time and nothing much could be achieved. In 1946, the Congress again  came to power.  

Advent of freedom

Forty five years have gone by since India became free. With the advent  of  freedom the responsibility of every citizen has gone up. Freedom does not fall like manna from heaven. Rather, it is the outcome of pains and suffering. So free people should be painstaking. The only freedom can be lasting and safe. Students are not exceptions to this. They are the salt of the country and India pins a great hope in them, they have their roles to play in free India.                                                                                                             

DISPLINES AMONG STUDENTS- Freedom of one demands freedom to others. It demands discipline life. Then only they can serve India well. The country will suffer if they are in disciplined life. Alone discipline can make student worthy of free India.                                                                                                                                                

STUDENT AND POLITICS- Should student take part in active politics? The answer differs from politicians. There are some who have an affirmative answer to this, according to them. Students should be active politicians. The argue that students of today are rulers of tomorrow others should be active politicians. The argue that student s of today are rulers of tomorrow. They must be well prepared today for what is to come tomorrow otherwise they will not prove successful rulers of free India &her freedom will be at stake.                                                                                                                     

While there are others who look for otherwise according  to them. Student life is a golden lifew. It is a preparatory stage for student, they will not prove themselves to study and make the most of this precious time they should follow the                                                               

An event of my life

I have noticed many examples of luxury in the wring place. I mean, the elaboration of enjoyments in such a way that they cannot be enjoyed. A little while ago I happened to be dining in the train; and I am very fond of dinning in the train—or, indeed anywhere else. I know that people some times write to the papers, or even make scenes in the railwy carriage, complaining of the railway dinner service; but my complaint was altogether different—and indeed, quite contrary. I did not complain of the dinner because it was too bad, but because it was too good. The pleasure of eating in trains is akin to the pleasure of picnics, and should have a character adapted to its abnormal and almost adventurous conditions. This dinner was what is called a good dinner--- that is it was about twice as long as any normal person would want in his own home, and a the great deal longer than he would want even in an ordinary restaurant. 

The train was also what is called a good train—that is, it was a train that swayed wildly from side to side in hurtling through England just like a thunderbolt. Bo body who really wanted to enjoy such a long and luxurious dinner would dream of sitting down to it under those conditions. It is foolish to attempt ti possess simultaneously the advantage of luxury and leisure with the advantage of speed.

  As a fact, such combinations are simply conventions. It is not that anybody left to his own intelligence , would prefer to enjoy a concert in a restaurant, or dinner in railway carriage. It is that some rather vulgar people do not think a restaurant is conventionally complete without a programmer of music, or a dinner without a cataloger of courses. These conventions are in their result quit cold and uncomfortable. They entirely neglect the art of pleasure-seeking, in the only intelligent sense of seeking pleasure, where it is to be found. It is generally to be found much more in isolation, in distinction and even in contrast.