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TULSI-PRAJNĀ
Science has put unlimited power in the hands of man that he is Man adopted science to get rid of the tyrrany of the pseudo religions. Now turning the world into a house full of explosives. And politics uses those explosives for selfish pursuits. Man to day lives a potentially scorched life frantically searching for meaning and security. What could be more dangerous than power divorced from sanity ? And how can sanity prevail if man does not incre. asingly seek for qualitative self-improvement while working for prosperity ? Science, Socialism and Secularism have no answers for this side of the story.
Solution lies in rejecting Science, Socialism and Secularism as goals. They are only the means. The goal has to be set by a new religion. In this religion the sectarian religions which have taken a heavy toll of life and which do not regard all religions as equal and equally great, have
place at all. If religion is a continuing search for the Ultimate Truth, then each religion is nothing but a means, a methodology. It is not the end by itself. Religion must work for the regeneration of the total man, while economic development works for the improvement of material conditions of living. More thinking; selflessness; and active love for all are needed if less blood is to flow from attempts at doing good to people.
Secularism must be replaced by Spiritualism, Socialism by Sarvodaya, and Science by Parāvidya i.e. Science of Matter integrated with the Science of Mind.
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