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has come out in the open to say that morality and spirituality are not just figments of imagination but are, in fact, the fundamental note and its sympathetic overtone in the harmony of universal music.
The trail of self-experience treaded by the sages:
The science wants to reform the world but it has its limitations. Everything cannot be regimented. It may succeed in controlling some of the extrinsic matters but human mind and heart are beyond its field of operation. This field is the exclusive domain of spiritualism.
The passions, cravings, selfishness and envy all originate from the ego-complex and over-possessiveness of man. Spirituality provides man the insight necessary to identify these complexes. The know-how and the strength to cut across their deeply entrenched roots are to be had from nowhere but spirituality.
Science may add polish to the veneered exterior of one's life, but it cannot transform the human core that makes man what he is, a complex bundle of contradictions and pot-pourri of passions. If man who has his ignoble instincts of greed, selfishness and jealousy left intact, finds access to unlimited power with the help of science, he will bring nothing but trouble upon himself as well as the world. Unlimited energy of the atom was presented to mankind by scientists after discovering it during atomic fission experiments in the laboratory; the first act of man's adventureism with it ended up in instant death of millions of living beings-men, women and children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the victims of first nuclear holocaust of infernal proportions. Science has brought many appliances of creature comfort and labour-saving devices to man's aid, but let us not forget, it has also played a major role in adding to human miserey and suffering. Science puts potent sources of power
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