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Unending struggle for satisfaction of limitless and ever multiplying wants has made humans the most discontented species inhabiting the Earth. 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 bereft of not just justice, equity and equality but also 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 will strengthen the moral and ethical fiber in our thought and conduct and give to our intellect the underpinning of rationality.
It needs to be realized that religion and spirituality are not ante - material prosperity. In fact every religion expounds laws of practical living to maximize efficiency, productivity and prosperity!
Both Jain 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 nonpossessiveness 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
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