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Spiritual Resurgence - The Crying need of our Times
standards. Money has entered our soul and has crushed it; money has entered our thoughts and has corrupted them. Life has been reduced to a comic tragedy.
Unending struggle for satisfaction of limitless and ever multiplying wants has made humans the most discontended species inhabiting the Earth. Humankind has taken to living by breed instead of by need. The irony of it all is that even in oasis environment of opulence and plenty, there is the undercurrent of pain and suffering.
It is necessary to break and rise above the vicious circle of mutually exploitative life benefit of not only justice, equity and equality but basically of morality and ethics. Our values of life stand vitiated and ethos of culture devalued. In this dismal scenario, the message of Jesus Christ is worth recalling:
"Get thee behind me, Satan,
I will have nothing from thy hands. "
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Science and Spirituality Should go Together:
Science and spirituality need to go together, while materialism surges ahead and nothing wrong with that, it will be a vastly richer human being if it is accompanied by spiritual resurgence which strengthen the moral and ethical fibre in our thought and conduct and give to our intellect the underpinning of rationality.
It needs to be realised that religion and spirituality are not antematerial prosperity. In fact every religion expounds laws of practical living to maximise efficiency, productivity and prosperity!
Both Jaina and Vedanta philosophies maintain that religion makes a human internally more self-sufficient, strong and blissful and this does not run counter to simultaneous greater material well being, so long as the culture of non-attachment and non-possessiveness guides the life style.
The debilitating weakness of our scientific and technological progress has been that the spiritual dimension has been mercilessly drained out of it, and that is how we have ended up with stockpiles of nuclear weapons, mountains of chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction. The twentieth century - the century of great achievements has also witnessed
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