Informally, there is a tendency among the members of JV group to fall back on religion and traditions and eulogize anything that challenges modernity. Very little distinction is made between traditional, modern and postmodern. It is also not fully appreciated that modernity has several paradigms and not everything is wrong in being modern. Similarly not everything was good in tradition. In India there is a tendency to attribute all bad things to British rule and Westernization which occurred more speedily after independence. I have seen that some people subscribing to JV are even trying to look for truth in the premodern practices of magic and witchcraft. To be of lasting value and to be consistent with the basic tenets of JV the approach of the practitioners should be more consistent with the value framework of humanity and like Gandhi the practitioners of JV must be able to draw ideas, material and texts from both tradition and modernity.

There is a lack of concern for documentation of experiments (if there are any) in application of JV in different domains – polity, technology, etc. One does not know how can JV be applied to problems of communalism, solution to Ayodhya dispute, treatment of river water pollution, organic farming etc. The standard answer of the believer is: “You have to wait. All this will happen. Let people first understand the basic principles of true living. Let them first explore what is true about them and the world.” If you are an outsider this answer will not convince you because you want results.

In JV there seems to be a greater emphasis on “I” to “I” relationship in the family and work organization context. If JV has to promote the true humanistic fervor it cannot be done without deemphasizing the importance of family, caste and community. However, for most followers family relations and even caste and community relations are taken to be sacrosanct. A typical rural supporter of JV would say: “Let us first improve the family. We will see the other things later.” For him family means the extended family. He does not see a need for social change.