Only benevolent people are truly spiritual: Dr Malini

In the beginning of her speech, Dr Saikia while expressing her thanks to Mumbai Sahitya Sabha for inviting her to interact with others said, �A discussion on the epics is vast and never-ending. Although, both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata are mythological epics, included in both of these are stories of art, literature, culture, ethnicity and those relating to the human society and its members. The main purpose of the epics is to cleanse the society of atrocities, oppression and persecution. Moreover, knowledge is based not only on religion, but on humanity, integrity and devotion too which are the basis of real spiritual knowledge. Those, who are involved in benevolence, helping others, they are the only true spiritual persons... we have learned from the epics that, without a pure mind, no one can achieve anything substantial and that without proper study, no one can become knowledgeable.

�Today�s generation is more attracted to new-found technology, so it easily finds the objects of its search, but it should also know that the easy path to success is not the permanent path. There are always two sides to a coin � good or bad. Our new generation is addicted to the newly found easy access, hence our society has became unruly!�, she said.

It may be mentioned that Dr Saikia founded the �Epic Study Centre� at Jorhat to teach the people the basic qualities of life and truth, such as how to be devoted to our forefathers and how brotherhood is an essential element of our life. �Even, our Constitution was written based on these two epics!� she said.

The secretary of the Mumbai Sahitya Sabha, Deepankar Borgohain gave the vote of thanks.