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How to Eradicate Corruption

conscious by enhancing their thinking capacity – for
the duty-conscious person can never involve himself in
any such negative activity as corruption.
One aspect of spirituality is that it keeps the emotions
under control and brings peace of mind. Spiritual
education is an elevated form of learning and it is the
spiritually learned people who, being intellectually
developed, are best able to control their emotions by
applying their powers of reasoning.

The materialistic person is more concerned with
material than with spiritual goals or values. Corruption
is a phenomenon of the materialistic society, while
spirituality is the phenomenon of spiritualized persons.
It is only such persons who can build a non-corrupt
society. Spirituality and corruption cannot go hand in
hand. If a society is to be free of corruption, it has to
be made up of spiritualized individuals. This is the only
solution to the problem of corruption. This is the right
beginning and only the right beginning can make it
possible to reach the desired goal.

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