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Modern life is not as simple as it was in ancient time and in Middle age. The progress of science, technology, inodern inventions their applications in facilitating civilization and cultural communication have made modern life immensely complex. The necessity of moral detachment, purity and inner withdrawal have become imperative on account of modern complexity of life. Industrial revolution in Europe had had its major impact not only upon Europe but upon other countries in Asia and U. S. A. as well. Factories, Higlipower industries, commrecial agencies and technological agencies and technological advance have infiltrated the elements of routine, mechanical habits, boredom, fatigue and neurological maladjustments. To cope up with the routine of life in day-to-day matters modern man requires mental panacea for better adjustment. During last two hundred years people everywhere are trying to inhabit in urban environment. They are in search of better conditions of living, new avenues of livelihood and economic clemation. In modern times man has been enslaved by political ideologies and devices. New ways of achieving power, rule and Governinent have put immense pressure over the liberty of the individual and social groups, On the one hand there is authority trying to regiment individuals and groups, make them parts and units of larger organisation, minimising the status of the individual and on the other hand there is liberty without proper guideline ensuing deterioration in individual and collective life. In modern times human individual is required to forge a middle path between restraint of freedom and unbridled liberty. Such an intellectual effort nceds aspiration to liberate from the forces of vital desires, organic passions, psychological ego, social reactions, inhibitions and dymatic myopca. Modern man is not only maladjusted from psychological point of view but is mentally deficient in comprehending the perspectives of life.
In current century nations of the world have witnessed two worldwars and its consequent massacre, loss of life of millions of people, their home, belongings, kith and kin. Even now the pangs of colossal tragedy are vibrating among the minds and lives of certain races and people. Unless a new way of life, Ethics, sense of 'Awareness and integration of norms and values are bronght to the mind of modern Man it is not possible to give abiding peace, security and way to experience Reality to mankind. The ancient path of Detachment as well as the values of Jeevan Mukta, identity with the Absolute and surrender to Supreme God are capable of rejuvenating the mind and heart of people in modern times. Modern world can no longer live by separation, divergence of creeds and dogmas of ideology. Modern Man requires a new sense of liberation which is not bound to particular system of thought, commitment and fixed system. True liberation consists in integrating, changing and transforming the methods
| SR No. | 520767 |
| Book Title | Sambodhi 1990 Vol 17 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | H C Bhayani |
| Publisher | L D Indology Ahmedabad |
| Publication Year | 1990 |
| Total Pages | 151 |
| Language | English, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Gujarati |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Sambodhi, & India |
| File Size | 6 MB |