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not been ablc to locate Him. He does not believe in the miracles and when he sees the religious teachers themselves do not practise what they preach but on the other hand caploit the people in the name of religion, the roots of faith and devotion bo come loose Thc industrial revolution in the West and the theory of competition changed the whole outlook Exploiting the backward nations and amassing of wealth and concentration of power in a few hands made Mamon usurp the throne of God The old values changed What were regarded as virtues came to be looked upon as viccs and vice versa In this mad rush and competition to leave the other fellow behind, man has no time to think of soul and its heolth. What to sao of soul, he has no timc to th nk of thc health of his body even. We see new diseases spreading mainly duc to this mad rush-blood pressure, heart diseases, mental diseases, cancer and so on
By denying the sun, the sun cannot become non-existent Similarly by denying or forgetting the soul, it does not become non-existent, and the natural laws relating to soul, like all natural laws, cannot be cheated They are inexorable and ncither prayers nor bribes can stop them from functioning. The old sanctions the fear of God and the punishment in hell or the reward in heaven, traditions and public opinion and the religious commandments, have all lost their force They can do longer cep men on the right path On the other hand they have become objects of scorn and ridicule. The only occupations of the people now arel ove and war (Raga and Dwesh) and every thing is fair in love and war We see the result of this philosophy or want of philosophy in the individual as well as the collective lives of men Dishonesty, corruption and crimes are increasing everywhere, laws and law courts arc failing to arrest crime in spite of promulgation of new laws almost everyday about cycry thing and the scar of fines and corporal punishment is vanishing Map is becoming more and more selfish, callous and cruel and the exploiter of his fellow beings Perhaps bcasts today are not more debased than what their predecessors of a hundred years ago were. But that cannot be said of man In the collective or the international sphere, there is the worldwide tension, the cold war, the opposing blocks, the threats and counter-threas of war, the competition in the descovery of weapons of total anihilation
Man has been trying to forge new sanctions in place of the old ones, but with no result in the international field he created the league of nations, which is long dead and the UN O. which has succeeded only in demonstrating its impotency. In the individual sphere, the enactment of laws about everything has reduced the sanctity of moral sanctions and obligations and has created a class of intellectuals whose only job is to specialize in making all such laws infructuous. What is going to be the fate of mankind ?
| SR No. | 010772 |
| Book Title | Ratnamuni Smruti Granth |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Vijaymuni Shastri, Harishankar Sharma |
| Publisher | Gurudev Smruti Granth Samiti |
| Publication Year | 1964 |
| Total Pages | 687 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 21 MB |