Improvement of the Society

Meaning: According to the Rigveda 10/191/04 - Our hearts, minds and resolve always be one so that our collective organization will never be spoiled.
Message: Collective organization, cooperation and the spirit of friendship are essential for a healthy society. There are several types of persons in the society. There may be the various persons like -foolish, learned, ill, healthy, theists-atheists, hedonists and ascetics i.e. men of opposing natures all-round. Every man's view point, thinking, experience, education, knowledge, self-interest, liking and qualities are different. Therefore all people do not think alike, and hence it becomes essential that everyman is sympathetic and tolerant towards others. It is not proper to think as foolish, ignorant, wicked and as our opponent, any person who thinks differently from us. Tolerance is the life-blood of an organization. On its basis of the hearts, minds and resolve of all in the society move in a single direction only, leading to progress in all fields.
Lack of tolerance gives birth to cheating, treachery, anger, revenge etc leading to anarchic atmosphere. On all sides the terror of bullying goodish, cunningness and conspiracy spreads and people's living becomes insecure and disturbed.
A very beautiful ideal of union and collective organization is seen in the life of the deity Shivshankar. He had the capability of keeping the blink, lame, lepers and diseased - all with him. He had kept under his control people who were having the bad tendency of harming others like snakes biting with their fangs. Symbolically he had live poisonous snakes round his neck as garlands. Thus he effectively put into effect his resolve to bring together various people of diverse tendencies into a cohesive group for usefulness to the society. He remained an ascetic without cloths, applied only ashes over his body - both as covering and as a sign of asceticism - kept his requirements minimum, drank poison to save the then society and established cooperation and tolerance in the society.
For an all-round progress of th society and the family it is essential that people give importance to others' opinions, accept whatever is good in them and also oppose whatever is wrong or immoral. A union's strength lies in tolerance and respect.
We observe how the thieves, dacoits, and bad men keep their organization very strong, do not keep any distinctions and carry out the orders even at the risk of their lives, because they are afraid of their leader. If they oppose and do not cooperate, their chief kills them. We have completely forgotten our leader, our chief, the All Powerful God. HE can punish, and punishes also. Many bad tendencies and influences develop and multiply in this world, because people ignore this crucial fact.
This stage has come about because of a decline in Brahmanism in our learned and knowledgeable peoplt.