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Religeou sity
PUNYA AND ITS FRUITIONS. and regulate the social life of a man with a view of mutually living in peace and amity where there is discord and introduce thereby of Punya in
question. a reign of harmony in the different spheres of our life and activity. But wherein lies the religiousity of the conduct which is presumed to purify the soul from the soils of the aboninable senses? Shortsighted and unfortunate is the man who thinks in this vein; for he forgets that it is in service that lies the soul of all religiousity. A service rendered with sincerity not only opens the vision, enlarges the heart, and draws out the higher instincts of man in their dynamic operations in the play of life here; but also sets up such strong action-currents as would mould the environment in a way that would contribute to the higher evolution of the individual here-in-after, as we have seen while treating of Karma-phenomenology, "as we sow so we reap.” Moreover, apart from the question of the immortality of deeds in the moral world, we can never secure from an idea that intense realization which very often comes in the wake of emotion. It is the feeling that counts with
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