If I were to speak now about the essence of what we are trying to do at Manzil, what we are really interested in is ‘Education for Responsibility’. And like when a pebble hits a still pond, the waves travel outward in countless concentric circles larger and larger in size even as they turn feebler and feebler in intensity, so is the circle of influence of each one of us in society. The circle of influence is in fact the circle of our responsibility. It is theoretically limitless, for it goes far beyond what is visible. Nevertheless it starts at the Self. Learning with a view to equip oneself to earn an honest livelihood can be seen usefully as one’s responsibility to oneself. But beyond self, the circles extend to family, neighbourhood, village, country, world, cosmos in ever larger if feebler circles.