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Culture is the reminiscent of the souls of our ancestors who lived all their lives protecting their souls to protect the souls of all that remained of the family tree and that led to a progression of generations that lived to ultimately to protect us until we can protect ourselves and our family-tree.

Turning your back on your culture is turning your back on your ancestors and all that they stood for.

Language is to culture what soul is to body. A culture that does not preserve its language cannot prevent the erosion of its identity and gradually fades away into nothingness.

My readers might be wondering why am I talking about something that I am not habitual of taking about.

A few days ago, I had attended a ceremony of religious scholars and priests, and I was wondering why do these people not speak Shlokas in Sanskrit and recite their meanings in Sanskrit-like Hindi but English.

The addressing by the preachers was in a language that was heavy with Hindi-slangs used in our day-to-day lives. This made me feel pity on the people in attendance that their understanding of Sanskrit-like Hindi has degraded so much so that priests have to preach in a Slang-Heavy Version of Hindi.

In the day-to-day lives of people in India, when somebody speaks Sanskrit-Like Hindi, we call such people as uneducated and uncivilized on their face. This is the level to which Indian society has stooped that anything that represents the heritage is inferior, or is followed by uneducated people, or it indicates towards being uncivilized.

But I won’t blame the Indian society or the Indian people completely.

The religious preachers, especially those who preach Hindi Speakers, must use Sanskrit-like Hindi at least.

But the question that arises is if the preachers use slang-heavy Hindi to make their preaching comprehensible for real? Or do they have a totally different goal in mind?

It appears to me that organizations that use slang-heavy Hindi do so because they want us to gradually forget the real Sanskrit-like Hindi just like they did to Sanskrit, and then they would gradually move us, especially the younger generations, away from the heritage and culture our great grandfathers and forefathers lived to protect.

Our consideration of everything related to our heritage as inferior and such preachers’ intentional usage of Slang-heavy Hindi suggests that we are helping our ill-wishers indirectly to ultimately fade away into nothingness.