About Us

W e have talked about planning for a long time and we have produced a draft Five-Year Plan. That Plan will presumably be finalised in the course of some weeks. Everyone recognises now the necessity for planning and tries to utilise our resources to the best advantage.

We can, to some extent, measure our resources, or most of them. But it is very difficult to measure the biggest of these resources that we have, that is, man-power, and that psychology which makes people work for great ends. Unless we utilise this man-power and unless we can produce that temper in our people which laughs at difficulties and get things done, sometimes in spite of facts, we cannot achieve anything really big.

Therefore we have to look to our people, go to them, talk and discuss with them and work with them. We must function as comrades in a common task, as partners in a joint undertaking. We may have to teach them something but we have much to learn from them also. So we should go to them not with pride of knowledge but in humility of spirit and with the intense desire to bring about, with our common labour that joint effort which can shake and break up a mountain of inertia.

The proposal to start an organisation, to be called the Bharat Sevak Samaj, has this in view. It is an ambitious task and we want men and women with high ambition for it – not the ambition for the little and personal things of life but the ambition to serve great causes, forgetting oneself, and achieve great ends.

This is not a political organisation, even though I, a politician, commend it. It is meant for every ablebodied man and woman, whatever his or her views might be on other topics”.