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reasonably optimistic that this early initiation to religion will bear fruit in good time.
The aim of all religions and philosophies is to seek the freedom of man from the bonds of ignorance and blind faith, from the meshes of prejudices and superstitions and rituals. Religion means freedom. Only when man rids himself of his mundane bonds he frees himself from the bonds of karma. Just as gold attains its pristine purity only when the dross is separated from it, so, too, the soul, only after it has shed all Desires and karma, will attain a state of blissful tranquillity and immortality.
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