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Muni Sushil Kumar's address at the All Religions Conference at Bhilwara
Religion expects man to eschew evil and deformity of actions and to aspire freedom from the bondage of attachments. Man should rise above thought, word and intelligence and should prefer to enjoy the deep, angust, melodious stillness and silence. That Stillness is the ceaseless spring of the language of the Soul-a broad opening of the Soul into the light-an opening for integration of the expanding mind, life and heart of man into a harmonious whole. Unless the perfect unfolding of the Spirit is the ultimate fulfilment of man's idealism the mental being cannot be the last term in the evolutionary endeavour--the spirit ascending and creating an urge towards greater expression. Love of one's own true splendour is Love of the Luminous Dynamism. The Eternal Truths, the way leading to highest efflorescence, demands restraint, nullification of passions and feelings. To purge one's self from all sorts of unwholesome propensities, there is no better and greater way than complete surrender and dedication at the service of the Lord in sublime humility and in profound joy. The Soul is our Master who is ever eager to impart to us every moment True Knowledge that man may know his In-mind, may attain Perfect Peace and may go ahead from ignorance to knowledge, from the fear of demise to the invincibility of immortality. For the aspirant there is the Blossoming of Inherent Divinity.
All religious precepts have given to man this knowledge in diverse expressions and in diverse terms and terminology. All religions have accorded Supreme Magnificence to effacement of ego and to abdication of individual self.
Standing at this supreme height of self-purification in communion with the Supreme Soul, pain, agony and anxiety all disappear. This is the primary experience of self-realisation and this power, inherent in the realisation of self, is the highest which can ever be achieved in thig material world. Medication, concentration, vows and prayer are mediums and instruments for creating that highest consciousness. The ultimate aim is knowledge, self-knowledge and God-knowledge. Without this knowledge man can neither help himself nor others. Cultivation of selfrestraint, spirit of compassion, straightness, sympathy, fellow-feeling and self-denial is the first step towards the onward march. Man's ultimata well-being lies concealed beneath his humility Man's salvation is the re, sult of his character and conduct. Man's rise and fall results from hia actions and emotions and feelings. Man is the maker and creater of his own destiny. Do good and the good will prevade. Man has to proceed from ignoble ta noble, from unlovely to beauty, fram impurity to purity That is the line of man's progression. All religions aim at inculcating, cultivating and developing this spirit of self-elevation. All the command ments insist on the acquisition of ethical mode of life,
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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