Cultivate sincerity

For the physically weak, vitamins are of value, as they remove deficiencies and provide the essential nutritive components.

But mere talk of vitamins, without taking the required one in our physical system, will not help.

The same may be said of values. People talk about values for two reasons. One of these is that it has become fashionable to talk about them. Secondly, we use different masks in order to get acceptance, com­mendation and praise.

However, this mask does not represent our real self. So, even though a person talks of values, he may, in reality, be the very opposite of it.

In his personal life, he might not be practising it. In that case, it would be mere hypocrisy and it would do disservice to the society he exists.

Hence, when people discover that men in power and high position merely talk of values but do not practise them, they then become disillu­sioned. They lose hope and feel frustrated.

In such a situation, hypocrisy becomes the worst enemy and sincerity turns out to be the real friend and real promoter of values.

Sincerity prepares our mind to imbibe other values, too. It wins the hearts of others and enables a person to be nearer to the Supreme Being.

This virtue is a fast friend of Honesty, Integrity, Truthfulness, Simplicity and Clean Heartedness. As it comes, Crookedness, Deceit, Hypocrisy, the habit to Hide and Seek, Dishonesty, etc, leave their nest and run away from a person’s mind.

It gives a great relief, a unique experience of lightness and peace and is the forerunner of complete purity. So, let sincerity be cultivated earnestly and enthusiastically to bring the ‘Real Change’ in society.