Bharatiya Chintan ki Parampara me Navin Sambhavanae Part 2

Author(s): Radheshyamdhar Dvivedi
Publisher: Sampurnanand Sanskrut Vishvavidyalaya Varanasi

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GANDHI : FROM "GOD IS TRUTH
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To revert to the theme of Truth is God', I should say that today, as we look around us, we find that spirituality, religious sanctions, moral considerations, altruistic approaches and attitudes are at a discount. An aggressive type of materialistic hedonism in the name of science and technology has taken hold of the industrially developed as well as developing countries. It is not science and technology which are at fault. They are immoral and neutral, morally speaking. It is the human psyche which is off its balance and has lost its heart to sense-urges, to narraw selfishness and inordinate love-lust of power over property, possessions and persons. The sociologist of the century, Pitrim Sarokin in his 'Reconstruction of Humanity' which he has dedicated to the 'Immortal Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi' has exclaimed in anguish that humanity has a future only if man becomes more altruistic, and cares more for the 'other' than for oneself, what we call in India, Parartha as different and opposite to Swartha. Even science today is pointing in that direction as the great physicist Fritjof Capra has declared in his great book "Tao of Physics'. He says that the 'truth of the oneness and organic integrality of the universe as realised by the spiritualists and mystics of the East is attested to by the latest findings of Quantum Physics. He calls upon the scientists to apply to our lives, this realisation of the 'oneness of the universe which includes not only our natural environment but also our fellow human beings'. He regrets while saying, Thus most of today's physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories'. He further remarks, that 'a radically different social and economic structure will be needed', if a dynamic balance is to be
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