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stand the philosophy of spirituality. To achieve this balanced goal of interaction there should be vellaborative research programmes, national and international seminars, opening of more Instintutions and Universities for this purpose.
In this era of spiritual drought and torpor of the soul it is very much desired that our age old traditional values should be made open to the people of the world. This will nelp in adapting a life-style free from the present stresses and strains of the materialistic world.
It is accepted that one who is a spiritualist cannot be immoral. But it is not possible that anybody and everybody becomes a spiritualist. There has to be the development of moral values and setf-discipline. Gandhi experi. mented with very effective measures like Satyagrha and fast unto death among others. But it is doubtful whether these can be practised by anybody and every body. Similarly the goals of spirituality are vey high and this cannot be applied at grass-root level to bring an ethical awakeninng in people. If spiritualiiy or science degenerates or appear to be non-effective, the fault does not lie with them but with the people who are either pseudospiritualists or pseudoscientists.
The youth have to be imparted such education as comes to terms with the parochial, the fissiparous, the philistine and the mudane tendencies and gives them the universal consciousness of world-brotherhood. Such an education which creates harmony and relates not nerely to the phenomenon but lasting and creates a feeling of inner satisfaction, is the spiritual educatjon.
One finds a worng use of Science and Technology but this is not entirely the fault of the scientists and technologists. perhaps the politicians who frame the policies and the industrialists who exploit are to blame. Nevertheless the scientists cannot be totally free from blame. They could refuse to sell their knowledge and skill to make weapons of mass destruction. This situation can be set
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