Book Title: Mysteries of Life and Eternal Bliss
Author(s): Anantprasad Jain
Publisher: Tirthakar Mahavir Smruti Kendra Samiti Lakhnou UP

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________________ 108 when science and scientific knowledge has advanced so much, man inust not think like a learned fool but must find out-what is what, and facing the realities boldly must do the needful. Religion, religious thinking and practices must be brought to the proper place and scientifically up-to-date and must not be allowed to remain perverse and stagnant, by preaching and maintaining the same practices which were necessary, expedient and useful some two thousands to twenty five hundred years back. To limit religion by space and time is to extract the soul out of it or to throttle it to death. This has been the cause of all kinds of wars, conflicts, bloodsheds, differences and miseries to the majority of humanity through out the ages. Religions must base on truth, wisdom and rationality. Mythology and all humdrum must be corrected for human good, Time has come when we must find out the real fundamental truth basing on correct reasoning, wisdom and reality and then distinguishing the right from the wrong, without any biases, we must formulate new codes of conduct on universal basis, applicable to all, inaccordance to the needs of

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