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service, and usually a person gets his turn for an hour, once in
every two years. This is a fabulous social partnership. If you
visit Chennai or Coimbatore, you should see this tradition and
culture.

We often discuss our poor tourism infrastructure. A hotel
having thirty-two hundred rooms would feature in newspapers
across the world, but there are many monasteries in this country
with more than this number of rooms. If you go to, Kali
Kamliwala, Hardwar or Hrishikesh, you will witness the
conveniences created by our ancestors for pilgrims. This
signifies that creating social infrastructure was part of our social
activity. Many of these noble activities vanished under the
influence of our slavery. We have to start them again and plan
the program of service. Gradually, it will be possible to resurrect
our original nature, which is essential to serve the society.