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A Rajput girl, who lived 200 years ago, who was brought
up in a rural environment, she looks at the community and urges
people to give up their castes and caste distinctions. How many
efforts have been made to bring about transformation in the
society?

There is a class in the society that feels that the problem
can be resolved only if the socio-economic condition of the
society is set right. If a son of a high-caste family and a son of a
low-caste family become doctors, the things will improve. It
appears to me that equality is not the final goal. Equality is just
a stopover, it is an enrooted station. The final goal should be
harmony. Baba Saheb Ambedkar was a well-read scholarly man;
he was with Sayajirao Gaekwad. Baba Saheb was a scholar, he
was a capable man. Gaekwad liked him, but his orderly used to
throw files to him. He did not like this. Baba Saheb was a Dalit
while the orderly was a high-caste man, so he threw the files to
him. This instance reveals that equality cannot be the final goal.
If harmony is made the final goal of community, then all
problems can be eradicated. The guarantees for harmony
comprise equal thinking, coming together, attachment, equal
harmony. We need harmony as well as attachment; they are
related to each other. There should not be a change in only the
economic and social status. This type of thinking has given me
certain traits, and they are aimed at joining the community. I
always state that devotion in the society cannot be manifested
if there is no sensitivity in it, if there is no empathy in it, if there
is no sympathy in it. If a society is devoid of devotion, it cannot
become powerful. The stream of attachment, pity and sensitivity
carries the society towards devotion, and this devotion
transforms into power ultimately. This form of power becomes
the cause of awareness in the society, which governs the society
over ages.

Efforts by Saints towards Harmony
Our Indian society is the one that follows the Jnana Marg. It

has not acquired all this learning through books. In the south,
there is an anecdote related to Ramanujacharya. He used to take