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free and fullest freedom is his final goal. The free man completely depended upon his free personal efforts, unaffected by any external agency, to attain his goal. His liberation or salvation did lie with bim alone and nowhere else. The central driving force of the ancient Bhāratīyans, Sumerians and Egyptians was Right Personal Effort. Their society may be called Effortive Society; their culture, Effortive Culture and their civilization, Effortive Civilization. Theirs' was the Effortive Way. We may, therefore, rightly, call the pre-Aryan society of the region, the śramanic (Effortive) Society and its way, the Śramaņic (Effortive) Way.
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