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Indian Ethnicity and Religious Heritage
which is to-day greatly obsessed by the forces of absolutism and rigidity. Tendency to cling to the finality of views leads to violent and many a times bloody conflicts.
Fundamentals of Evolution
All phenomenal events of this changing world can be understood in their true nature if we bear in mind the dynamic mechanism of their coming into existence, persistence and final cessation, i.e. "utpati, shthiti, and laya." These are the unavoidable three stages of evolution of every sentient and non-sentient thing and event of this universe. All the variegated changes that we witness in daily life are subject to these three stages. What we notice as cessation is nothing but the causation of fresh existence in a different form, which undergoes the same cycle of persistence and cessation. However all through out this cycle of changes there is constancy of one essential element that is present through out all the changes and which supplies the element of persistence. This element is known
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