Ujjain, May 14: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday made a veiled assault on Western international locations and their “expansionist” designs and identified that their “holier than thou” perspective is primarily chargeable for challenges like terrorism and world warming.
“Tere raaste se mera raasta zyada sahi hai (My approach is healthier than yours). This holier than thou method is dragging the world in direction of conflicts,” the prime minister stated, addressing the Worldwide Conference on Universal Message of Simhasthon on the sidelines of the Simhasth Kumbh right here.
“Vistar-vad (expansionist design) – can be main us in the direction of battle. Time has modified. Expansionist fashion is just not an answer to issues. We should always not go horizontal. It isn’t an answer. We have to go vertical and lift ourselves from inside,” Modi stated within the presence of Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and different dignitaries.
Paying wealthy tributes to India’s pluralism and its “inherent battle administration” traditions, Modi mentioned typically an outsider feels that India is a society at all times in battle. “However the battle administration the world is attempting to evolve in large seminars is definitely current as an inherent advantage in us. In any other case, we might not have been following and paying abeyance to 2 excessive considering,” he stated.
Prime Minister Modi stated: “We Indians worship Lord Rama for his obedience to his father and in the identical breath we glorify Prahlad who disobeyed his father. Equally, we hail Sita, who obeyed her husband, and likewise Meera, who disobeyed her husband. This solely reveals that folks right here know methods to deal with conflicts.”
Nonetheless, he additionally hastened to underline that a proper steadiness must be caught between traditions and modernity and use the standard data and human values in a extra scientific method.
“Additionally it is necessary that within the title of custom, we should always not promote unscientific issues and superstitions. We’ve to attract classes from the previous values, however replicate on them within the context of recent social values,” the prime minister stated and maintained that earlier going abroad was thought of a taboo, however it’s not related.
“There was a time when crossing the seas was thought-about unholy however that has modified. Likewise, some traditions may also change with time,” he underlined.
On the similar time, he stated efforts must be made to inform the world “within the language they perceive” the sanctity and prowess of Indian values.
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PM hails Indian traditions, lashes out at "expansionist designs" of West
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