it grows in a dirty pond? We have to take the teachings and advice of a man on its own merits, without regard to the personality of the teacher. What have the elements of Geometry to do with the personality of Euclid? Bondage and thraldom is fast departing, evolution is at work and everything must progress upward and onward. Should your personal God alone be at a standstill? No. Even the avowed champions of materialism, scepticism, positivism, atheism and agnosticism, owe their success unconsciously to the active spirit of religion in them The world itself is a miracle, no need of other miracles. Fear—the cause of all sin, is only removed by knowing Atman. Realise purity and become pure. It is unnatural to teach any other religion. Is it not laziness to practically let others live your life and have no freedom in dress, eating, walking, sleeping, laughing and weeping, not to say anything of talking? We want to appear so good in the eyes of others; this is the social evil of society, the bane of all religions. Every statute (Smriti) stands there to say “Yesterday we agreed so and so, but how feel you this article today.” Unless a religious scripture meets the spiritual wants of the people, it can not live, and as the people grow in the course of Evolution, the interpretation of the religious Scriptures of theirs must advance with them. We have to solve our problems and to begin to see with our own eyes rather than to continue peeping through the eyes of our most venerable seers and sages of the past gone-by. Do see God in Nature, as nature; but something more, see Him also in the laboratory and the science room; let the chemist’s table be as sacred to you as the Yajna fire, If the ruling Self of outside Nature were different from your own
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