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Leading A Spiritual Life

and at the same time enable you to opt for the positive
features and ignore those features that strike you as
being negative.

We Require Intellectual

Crusades

The whole structuring of formal education is based on the
concept of making oneself qualified in the professional market,
rather than on making oneself a good member of society.

hat has gone wrong with India? Before
WIndependence, everyone had high hopes of
freedom, but now they feel that something more is
required to fulfil their dreams. Our most pressing need
is to discover this missing element and re-plan our
strategy accordingly. This is the most urgent task before
our nation.
The genesis of the problem is that we failed to
differentiate between pre-Independence and post-
Independence India. The failure in recognising this
situation is the basic cause of all our problems. We
are the victims not of any kind of internal or external
conspiracy but of our own misguided planning. In pre-
Independence India our struggle was based on our
political rights rather than on our social duties. The

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