10."VIDYA AND AVIDYA" EACH OF THEM SERVES A DEFINITE PURPOSE:-

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Mantram-10.

Our Upanisadic culture does not accept any purely intellectual idea as a philosophy just because some reverend saint or sage happened to declare it . However great the individual may be, nobody has been given the authority or the prerogative to declare a philosophical truth and thrust it down the understanding and appreciation of the laymen.

A truth that has been tested and found fit upon the touch-stone of life by repeated generations alone is accepted by the Bharatheeya devotees.

Both vidya and avidya, in fact, are bondages.    

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