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Spiritual Resurgence - The Crying need of our Times
something missing. It is the spiritual orientation in its wholesome dimension. The materially prosperous world is in danger of becoming a spiritual slum.
The late Swamy Chinmayananda observed once :
"Happiness dwells not in the outward charms of materialism. Real happiness abides in the core of your spiritual personality One ought to discern the bliss within .....
The key to inner happiness is in spiritual upsurge."
World religions command large following. However, spiritual rejuvenation is the crying need of our times to reform our religious attitudes, habits and perceptions which have grown in a climate to ritual, dogma, blind belief, conservative orthodoxy, bigotry and parasitic fanaticism. Lulled by materialistic comforts, humans have let ritual be mistaken for religion and bigotry for faith. Non-essentials of religion are highlighted at the vital expense of essentials. Religious fundamentalism devoid of the basic virtue of tolerance and compassion has given a wrong direction to the very nobility and sublimity of religious instinct and faith. A saint-scholar has observed:
"In many ways we have gone a long way already towards committing spiritual suicide, while we may revel in our intellectual and scientific achievements."
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Away from mumbo-jumbo, we need to restore the rational approach to religion for spiritual resurgence. Jaina religion espouses that our actions, thoughts and expressions should flow and be inspired from the three principles of:
Samyak Darśana (Enlightened Perception)
Samyak Jñāna (Enlightened knowledge) and Samyak Caritra (Enlightened conduct)
Message of Indian Philosophy - The Cosmic Perspective
From times immemorial Indian philosophy has sought happiness in looking beyond the earthly mundane existence towards the life giving, sustaining and destroying cosmic phenomenon -which in itself has been evolving in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. God has been
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