To
my brothers and sisters in India
They say silence is golden but silence is
also where truth speaks loudest. I would appeal to all of you to step away from
the clamour and the sounds that surround you right now and revert to your inner
silence that each of you within you possess.
In that core of silence that I call the sphere.
Sit back and listen. Let me state to you from my heart to yours,
the feelings that I have held within me and refrained from communicating with
you about. Let me begin by saying why the silence has been there. In essence,
any response from me would have been taken as being inflammatory and even
possibly legally binding. As you well know, my people are the most important
assets I have. The media and such like have made a big furore about the fact
that we have large investments holdings throughout India in land, banks and various
other investment portfolios. Ironically
the same media have tried to portray us to be some kind of scam operation.
It has been amazing to me that the reporters
who have the intelligence to recognise these assets have not had the
intelligence to put together the fact that no scam company would have invested
as we have. Furthermore, scam companies do not persevere for ten years or more.
Even if a scam company had begun in such a manner, any company that survives
ten years definitely cannot be called a scam of any kind.
We have actually lasted longer today as we
head towards our tenth year celebration that has lasted longer than some
countries in Eastern Europe. Have any of these media even checked that we
have affiliations with international organisations of repute, any of which can
be researched on the internet. They
have been unable to understand that we have been in over a 100 countries around
the world in the last 10 years.
Without doing any research whatsoever, we
have been put to trial by the media and essentially we’ve been convicted and
hung. So why the silence? Because each
time we have tried to voice our side, there has been a cost to be paid. Do we decide to let the courts do the
speaking for us, in particular the Supreme Court?
But this is not what I am here to talk to
you about today. I’m here to tell you that India needs to change. And that we
are part of this change. And that you
are part of this change. And
historically, change is something that has been bitterly resisted by those who
are entrenched within the system. This
is a battle that is basically being fought where we are bringing forward an India that has
been virtually unchanged for 50 years. We need a world that is 50 years ahead.
This industry began 100 years ago and has
been in this current form as MLM for 50 years. India has fought change at a tremendous
cost and unfortunately, is still continuing to do so. But for us this is not
just about business. It is our mission.
I am as convinced as I have ever been about the mission, the vision and
the purpose for which we started this company all those years ago. Our motto
which is Gandhin in its inception as true to today as it has ever been. I say
to each and every one of you, we have to raise ourselves because it is only
when we raise ourselves can we raise others. But in order to raise ourselves we
have to fall. Why are we so afraid of falling?
We can climb to any pinnacle of success in
any field of endeavour there will always be the danger of falling. And there is
no clamour anywhere in this world of any note who can say he has never fallen.
Can we fall? Will we fall again? Yes. Yes and Yes. But to not climb at all will
be the greatest mistake anyone can make. For we can climb and we can fall or we
can choose not to climb and never fall for there is nothing to fall from. Or we
can climb and reach the top and learn to fly.
My heart goes out to all of you who are now
going to trials and tribulations but all I can say to you is between you and I,
let us not give up, let us not derail for India needs to change. For India needs you, for India needs us. For India needs the
world. And the world needs India.
Don’t falter and if we fall. Let’s climb again.