LIFE AND CULTURE

HE IS CULTURED WITH CONDUCT PURE AND THE WHOLE BUT

LEARNED MISCREANT’S WORSE THAN FOOL.

Conduct shows the man. A bookworm loose in character is worse than a fool. Culture must have a life value; a cultured man must behave wisely and nobly.

The booklore piled in proud

merciless brain is like character box empty and vain.

Mercy, compassion, charming qualities and loving nature are signs of erudition. Service is the expression of scholarship. Practical virtue is the proof of learning. The wise man talks less and acts more. He who indulges in vanity and less self-glory and vain talk is a book made chatterbox empty of practical utility.

Sense –conquest shows the sage of light and truth;

a gossip’s tongue betrays a mind uncouth.

Control the senses and the mind .Be a master of your self. Never revile others out of pride or literary jealousy. Vanity betrays an awkward interior. Be modest in words and manners. Save yourself from excess and exaggeration. This is the sign of sagacity.

Be a sea of booklore;

but what of that?

He is supreme who sees truth in the heart

The press pours out printed books intorreansts! The limited brain cannot read all. Even heaps of books cannot vouchsafe peace. Touch the heart instead of loading the brain. Contemplate more than study. A moment of mediation is worth more than an hour of mugging up. Knowledge must be used for psychic perfection. Physic light easily leads to knowledge and peace.

He is rich in enlightment

who sees LEARNING AND LIFE

unite like art and verse.

The poet must know art and make his poem rich in beauty, deep in thought, sweet and rhythm. Then only his poetry can be a living force. Even so learning must manifest itself in active life. Lore must breathe in life.