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Annamalai Convocation Address
Arignar Anna
18.11.1967
(Part 4)
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May
I submit my plea to you, youths blossoming forth from this institution,
be firm but not obstinate, let here be a blending of ideas, but
never cheap imitation and injurious adulteration, beware of mistaking
obsessions for principles and fads for facts, strike at a synthesis
and avoid subservience, view as the final on to protest against
injustice but project not your own view as the final one, forget
not the ancient saying
“கற்றதுகைம்
மண்ணளவு கல்லா துலகளவு”
And
forget not to practice what you profess.
University education gives you the basic needs for this stupendous
task, but that is not enough. Say along Lafayettee
I read, I study
I examine, I listen
I reflect, and out of
All this, I try to form
An idea in which I can put as
Much of commonsense
As I can.
And
remember the longest journey is the journey inward, and since
graduation is but the starting point of that journey, I wish you
success - reach the goal yourselves - teach others to march towards
the goal and let that goal be,
A world without the
Beggar’s out-stretched
Palm, the miser’s
Heartless, stony stare,
The piteous wail of
Want, the pallid face
Of crime, the
Livid lips of lies,
The cruel eyes
Of scorn,
A race without
Disease of flesh or
Brain, shapely and
Fair, the married
Harmony of form and
Use-where
Life lengthens, fear
Dies, joy deepens,
Love intensifies, and
Man regains his
Dignity.
And
to get these things realized, let us one and all strive towards
the ideal enunciated by Thiruvalluvar,
“உறுபசியும்
ஓவாப் பிணியும் செறுபகையும்
சேரா தியல்வது நாடு”
I am confident that you are being
sent into the wide world by the Annamalai university with this
objective-you are bound to win, for you are adequately equipped
with the spirit supplied by this great institution. May your life
be a bright one, and may its luster brighten the entire land!
Accept my congratulations and march onwards, towards the land
of smiles.
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