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to prevent nuclear war. Thus, sometimes-leading men and women can get distracted and it is arousal of spiritual consciousness that brings them back to the right equation.
Communism heralded socialist ideology promising equity and equality to all, elimination of exploitation and emergence of a classless society. And yet it vanished within half century because it did not have an underpinning of spiritual dimension. It became a God - Less society, which made it inspirationally barren and dry though on the face of it just and fair. The ends and means bore no equation with one another and communism took the form of totalitarianism because of wrong means.
The ends and means are best reconciled in the spiritual and philosophical backdrop and not within the confines of any materialistic ideology - even if it is socialistic. Arthur Koestler has quoted Ferdinand LaSalle pertinently in the famous world classic on communism "Darkness at Noon":
"Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled That changing one, you change the other too, Each different path brings other ends in view"
Colonialism
The colonial exploitation of far away territories and people has now given way to global interdependences between nations of North and south. Weary of wars and conflicts and ideological divides; humanity is looking for durable peace and understanding
Human kind has been caught up in the illusory web of materialistic pattern of life. Human beings feel rich or poor almost entirely by monetary 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.
Ahimsa: The Ultimate Winner
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