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Politico-Spiritual Rendezvous
of physical health and in the development of a healthy
personality.
There is much discussion about the necessity for
social reform. But this has not come about, because
although all the efforts made to this end have been
Himalayan, they have proved infructuous. Why is this
so? It is because the starting point is not the right one.
The starting point must be to bring about change in
the individual. The mind of the individual must be
addressed in order to revolutionize his thinking. This is
the right and only way to carry out social reform. Other
methods have proved ineffective.
Politico-Spiritual Rendezvous
If spirituality is inner science, politics is external discipline.
We need both.
he well-known English poet Rudyard Kipling once
Tsaid, East is East and West is West, and never the twain
shall meet. This maxim has been proved untrue as far
as the West and the East equation is concerned, but in
respect of the equation of spirituality and politics, this
undoubtedly holds true.
The fact is that spirituality and politics are both
full-fledged disciplines, both need total involvement.
So, each can become involved in the other’s discipline
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