India, Jan. 27 -- It is a very good sign that today an increasingly large number of the intelligentsia have begun to raise their voices about the need to practise values in order to improve the quality of life and to make the world a better place to live in. It is a sign of this age, and also of intellectualism, that once people take up a topic for serious discussion, they begin to analyse it, dissect it, describe it and give a detailed explanation of it from various angles.

For an in-depth study, and in keeping with the spirit of the times, this is all right. But all these discussions and descriptions lose their purpose and charm if we merely intellectualise them and do not take care to give them spiritual content and put them into prac...