My village people, illiterate and landless, speak of and live by what I read in the Bhagavad Geeta and the Mahabharata.
"The moment you talk to them [the Indian peasants] and they begin to speak, you will find wisdom drops from their lips. Behind the crude exterior you will find a deep reservoir of spirituality. I call this culture-you will not find such a thing in the West. You try to engage a European peasant in conversation and
you will find that he is uninterested in things spiritual.
you will find that he is uninterested in things spiritual.
In the case of the Indian village, an age-old culture is hidden under an entrustment of crudeness. Take away the encrustation, remove his chronic poverty and his illiteracy and you will find the finest specimen of what a cultured, cultivated, free citizen should be."
(Harijan, 28-1-1939, p. 439) - Gandhiji
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