yOU ARE UNNECESSARILY MAKING A BOGEY OUT OF IT. gAYATRI mANTRA IS ONE OF THE GEMS CONTAINING THETHE MOST PROFOUND DESIRE OF MANKIND
''TO LEAD US FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT '
DOES IT TROUBLE THE SECULARISTS OR ATHEISTS OR ANY ONE ELSE.iN A HUGE COUNTRY WITH BURGEONING POPULATION nO gOVT CAN ENSURE IMPLEMENTATION OF ITS CATENAS OF LAWS ON EVERY SUBJECT UNDER THE SUN WHERE IS THE NECESSITY OG BRINGING IT ON THE STATUTE BOOK.
THE CHILDREN SHOULD BE TAUGHT THIS IN SCHOOLS SO THAT THIS
MANTRA ' REMAINS THE GUIDING BEACON IN THEIR LIVES.
ABIDE WITH ME WAS A PART OF MAHATMA GANDHI'S FRIDAY PRAYERS.
ABIDE WITH ME IS PLAYED EACH YEAR ON 29 JANUARY DURING THE BEATING THE RETREAT CEREMONEY WHERE ABOUT 32 TO 40 BANDS OF THE THREE WINGS OF THE ARMED FORCES PLAY THIS TUNE. ' ABIDE WITH ME' AS A HYMN HAS BEEN THE SOURCE OF SOLACE TO MILLIONS OF INDIANS IN THEIR MOMENT OF TRIAL AND TRIBULATIONS. IT IS ONE OF THE PUREST HYMNS REACHING OUT TO GOD WITH ALL THE HEART AND SOUL OF A MAN CAUGHT IN A BIND FROM WHERE THERE IS NO ISSUE, IN A WORLD WHERE ALL AROUND ONE SEES 'CHANGE AND DECAY' ABIDE WITH ME HAS BEEN A SOURCE OF SUSTAINING STRENGTH. NO LEGISLATION IS REQUIRED TO PROMOTE SUCH GEMS OF PURE WISDOM WHICH ABOUND IN ALL RELIGIONS AND IN ALL COMMUNITIES
ANAND GUPTA