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 Cleanliness is next to Godliness’

An unclean environment is an insult to the Creator. Everything that God has

created, beautiful, and Mother Nature has in her the power and means to maintain the

hygiene and sanitation of the earth. It is only man who makes the environment dirty.

For reasons, pest known to himself, Very often, man is happy to keep it that way. .

When we go to a place of religious worship, don’t we bathe first? Don't we put

on our best clothes? We must remember that this world is our temple and the first

norm we must follow is that of personal hygiene. This involves keeping one's body,

clothes, belongings and home clean. This prevents diseases and enhances the quality

of life. It also keeps the mind fresh and motivates us to work better.

Cleanliness must also extend towards the neighborhood and the environment in

general. For this, it is imperative that every person develops clean social and civic

habits. It is wrong to spit on the roads, urinate in public or throw litter anywhere one

pleases. Doing such things only spoil this wonderful place that has been gifted to us

by the Almighty -our planet Earth.

It is our moral duty to keep ourselves, our homes, our environment, our nation

and this earth clean. That is what is meant by the proverb ‘Cleanliness is next to

Godliness’.

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6. ‘As you sow, so shall you reap’

If a farmer desires to reap a harvest of wheat, he sows wheat; if he wants rice, he

sows rice. What should we think of him if he planted wheat and expected to harvest

rice; or the other way round? The law of nature tells us that we must 30w what we

wish to reap. If we sow nothing, we shall reap nothing. “

So it is with life. We have always to hear the consequences of our actions. lf’

we perform good deeds, we shall be rewarded with good. If we perform bad deeds, we

shall never enjoy peace of mind. Our lives will be wretched and miserable. We cannot

achieve fair ends by using foul means. Even if we do, it will be short-lived.

Man can decide his own future by his present deeds. If he sows the seeds of vice,

corruption and sin, he reaps the harvest of misery and ruin. If he plants virtue, purity

and goodness, he plucks the golden fruit of success and happiness. If we want to

achieve good we should do well, for as we sow, so shall we reap.

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