Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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can be utilized as a means of further progress, if we only direct its future evolution on lines which are compatible with the spiritual requirements of the real Man.
We do not decry civilization at all so far as its own sphere of action is concerned. It has its good points, and has gone a long way to improve the condition of the masses in certain particulars. But we must not lose sight of the distinction between racial and individual interests nor confound sanitation and hygiene with salvation. The fall has to be reversed by each and every one of us individually; racial civilization cannot aid us much in this direction. Civilization will not take any nation into paradise in a body; for its doors are opened only for individuals, not for races. All our boasted railways, telegraphs, and scientific instruments and inventions, which constitute our civilization, or, at least, a major portion of it, are merely for national aggrandizement; to the individual they cannot be said to have brought anything like unalloyed happiness. And if we add to these considerations the long list of those unfortunate creatures who have fallen victims to the march of civilization, and of those who have been crushed under the wheels of the Juggernaut car of science and culture, we shall learn to estimate modern progress properly.
There is no doubt, however, that civilization can be made to uplift both the individuals and masses, and to benefit large bodies of men collectively. The idea of collective worship explains how this is possible; for the power of concentration increases with the increase in the number of persons of one mind. Public worship
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