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This is a norm to which the spiritual outlook is indifferent. It is a sign of the material imagination overpowering the spiritual vision that the merit of a religious establishment is measured by its wealth and its importance, by the number of believers hooked to it. In the material world, for example, it is material resources, not ideals, that drive a project. The conditioning of the natural man makes him assume that the spiritual world operates on principles identical to natural laws. Evil cannot eradicate evil, just as a hammer blow on the head cannot heal a headache. ![]() Evil must be overcome with good, and not resisted with evil. It will leave everyone eyeless and toothless. Spiritually enlightened as he was, Gandhi insisted that this is not viable. Action and reaction, to take one example, being equal and opposite in the natural domain, finds its echo in the religious sphere as the Mosaic law, ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’. The natural dimension of his existence functions in affinity to the world of matter and is governed by its laws. The secret of religion lies in man, not God. ![]() He recognises that religion could turn, over a period of time, into a contradiction of itself. His light has not yet turned into darkness. ![]() This is a sign of hope, for it proves that the common man, as against the merchants of religion, hasn’t lost his senses. I was pleasantly surprised that those who welcomed my article on the rot in Christianity outnumbered those who resented it by a hundred to one.
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