Why is morality so important for an individual and society at large? Bhagawan, Our Loving Master, clearly explains for us today.

It is essential that every boy and girl should learn and practice the basic ethical principles for the blossoming of their true nature. Their primary obligation is to recognise the divinity that is in each of them. In the olden days, students used to pray to the Goddess of knowledge, Saraswati, to make them good, truthful, and sweet-looking. Handsome is that handsome does. Where truth and goodness exist, beauty is present as a natural outcome. Control of the senses and observance of the accepted code of discipline are the hallmarks of a cultured man. In the pilgrimage of life, man has to guide his conduct by certain moral principles known as Niti. Niti is derived from the word ‘nita’, which means what is proper or right. Right conduct is the royal road for man to achieve the highest state in life. When morality declines in a man, or a society, or a nation, that man, society, or nation faces destruction. The loss of morality may even result in the destruction of an entire civilisation built up through centuries. Without morality, people perish. Morality is the life breath of humanity.