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TULSI-PRAJNA misguided men. Unless we foolishly minimise the internal of our lives aod maximize the external, we sign the warrant for our own day of doom". (The World House, p. 172) Further, "A civilization can flownder as reality in the face of moral and spirtual bankruptcy as it can through finacial bankruptcy.” (Ibid, p. 186) Reflecting the dichotomy of modern scientific inventions, an Asian writer says :-- "You call your thousand material devices” labour saving machine", yet you are for ever 'busy". With the multiplying of your machinery, you grow increasingly fatigued, anxious, nervous, dissatisfied. Whatever, you have, you want more; and wherever you are you want to go somewhere else. Your divices are neither time saving nor soul-saving machinery”.
The above remarks on science or modern scientific civilization, in fact, do not show its meaning-lessness but its inadequacy, incompleteness which require to be engulfed by its other counterpart, vital for the harmonious growth of human civilization, and this counterpart is spirituality, religion and morality. The nature of Reality :
What is the nature and the number of reality-is a very debatable question. Some are monist and some dualists, some pluralist and some nutralists. But this sort of controvercy exists only regarding the ultimate reality and not for the reality which we experience in our life. The root of such controvercy is that we are in habit of giving different meanings to the reality according to our own faith assumptions and thought constructs. Therefore, all are true or all are false. This problem does not have any importance in moulding our behaviours, if there is, it is like a drop in the occean. But the reality which we experience in our daily life and which affects our life pattern, have two distict aspects. In this sense of the term, we shall say that reality is not one but the two. One is the external to the agent who tries to know reality and the other is internal which is within him or her. This truth has been accepted
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