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Apart from his all out efforts for the spiritualisation of politics, economics, and education, Gandhi's unflinching faith in prayer, fasts, essential goodness of men and moral virtues provide adequate evidence of his deep moorings in spirituality. He has acted in most crucial circumstances on the basis of Inner Voice" or "still voice within", and had also developed his power of "conscience" as a judgment seat which can say what is good, just, right or otherwise.48 To him, real Home Rule (Swaraj) is self-rule or self-control and the way to it is passive resistance; that is soul-force or love-force. His experiments are moral-spiritual experiments and his goal has been self-realisation or to see God face to face to attain Mokşa. But he raised politics to the level of religion, and spirituality to the par of social action. In him, spirituality and social dynamics. Science and humanism, had a confluence. His whole life is truth in action, spirituality in action. He discovered Satyāgraha as a moral-spiritual equivalent of war, thus he brought even war to the level of spirituality and spirituality to the level of war.
Our clinging to the materialistic and mechanistic world-view of Descartes and Newton has brought us perilously close to Destruction. Besides, there has been paradigm shift in various sciences. Today, there is the bootstrap theory in physics, a case of system approach dealing with non-living systems. James Jeans and Eddington had already indicated the idealistic tendencies in modern science. Francisco Varela is today working on the theory of self-organizing systems indicating the similarities between mysticism and neuro-science. Stanislay, Grof, Ken Villber, Francis Vaughan and many others have explored the spiritual dimensions of psychology. In Schumacher's Buddhist Economics' and 'Small is Beautiful', we find spiritual dimensions and alternative networks in the field of Economics, so Charlene Sprentnk has dealt with ecological oriented politics in her "The Spiritual
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