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10. Religion
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Today, the external aspect of life has become enriched with material joys and facilities. But there has been a spurt in frustration, disappointment, selfishness and mental destitution in internal life. Science has heaped-up a multiple of material means, but through that the human virtues of scrupies and self control could not be developed in man. Competition of arms has led mankind on the verge of total annihilation. The financial prosperity of man has made him even more greedy. A man is civilized and well-cultured externally, the properties of an animal are finely seated inside him. Life is an atmosphere in darkness between life and death, between the earth and the sky. Religion is a light emitted from that block of darkness. If some one has the glow of religion then he will finally follow the path of rationality. Mind can be controlled by the discipline of religion and right knowledge. If inind is freed from attachment and passion, it leads to emancipation.
