People at large in the country being guided by society’s mentors, in the august company of social reformers and philosophers, to imbibe virtues through advisory in simple languages in the form of quotable sayings, idioms, proverbs and words of wisdom has a history of several centuries. Later generations owe it to sections of that past that have heeded the advisory, including life’s do’s and don’ts, for the country to have weathered countless events threatening order in the life of people, yet enduring to this day without getting devastated totally, unlike the case of many other countries and civilisations across the world in the long time span of many centuries. Even as the land currently hosts well-read scholars commanding societal respect and recognition invoking the country’s past luminaries and impress upon the people about the lasting benefits of orderly living, the presence of takers for their words appears to be on the downside, given the goings on across the land as faithfully reported by the media.
The time-honoured idiom “A sound mind in a sound body” captures an ocean of wisdom embodying care and caution in keeping company with others in society as well as compliance with the regimen of diet avoiding foods known to hurt one’s physical and mental health. The land’s people at large neglecting these principles of life is currently prompting society’s mentors to take up the cause of correcting the wrong.
