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"It is by transforming ourselves that we shall be able to transform the world. The soul of all improvement, it has been rightly said, is the improvement of the soul." (p. 48).
In the realm of religion, as in all others, “There is no resting on the road of life. Every achiement is a starting point for something new." (p. 51).
All this expects of man full faith in belief and practice of moral values, humanistic outlook, sympathy even towards evil doers, a constant effort at widening our vision. For this the author adds that:
"It is good to be devoted to the moral code but it is wicked to be fanatic about it. It is our guide and beacon-light, but, if we make a god of it, it will blind our reason and strand us in immortality. No progress is possible if the moral rules are regarded as sacrosanct." (p. 57).
A true attitude of adherence to moral values, to the ethics of religion and life and all this with a universally wide vision of the ultimate good of man, all human beings and our future civilization will be real reconstruction. This will naturally have a deep impact on man's family life and other spheres of life. The author therefore states first of all that
"The different aspects of human life, physical, vital, mental, emotional, aesthetic and ethical are sacred since they are the means for our growth towards diviner being." (p. 58). The author therefore gives his ideal of happy and smooth relation between husband and wife in these words :
"True love requires for its maintenance the presence of an overarching end, the pursuit of a common ideal to the realization of which the lovers de dicate themselves. Husband and wife accept each other and evolve out of the given unlikeness a beautiful whole.” (p. 59).
This requires extreme patience, restraint, forebearance, charity and vigilance. Once this is achieved and husband and wife experience an identity, all other problems of family and social life will tend to be solved. Children and their natural growth under the loving care of parents will be achieved. The author is therefore opposed to trial-marriages, contract marriages etc. Man and woman should therefore take to married life in the seriousness that it expects. This will mean transformation of their lives, their children, the society and through that our civilization with all its human values.
. Dr. Radhakrishnan next refers to transformation and reconstruction
in the realm of economic relations. For this expects man not to cultivate servitude of machines; labour and leisure should be the right of all; man
