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certain ethical standards. So that each will not hurt each other and live amicably and peacefully in a society. But religion itself is now contested. We have not left the habit of fighting amongst ourselves based on what we consider as our notions of God and we do not want to tolerate each other. No tolerance, no acceptance of another person’s values. There is a refusal to recognise that the Divine exists in all and the human dignity lies in knowing that Divinity is there in all. If we remove the Divinity aspect in humanity I do not think there is anything dignified about it, because the other is only an animal. There are two aspects in our life. We have got both the animal as well as the memory of the Divine. That animality has been increased beyond proportion in the modern day is what every one of us know. The discerning persons definitely know how much damage has been done to their mental sphere and the sphere of conscience by the amount of violence, by the amount of animal behavior that is promoted through our media. In a world like this now the question arises whether religions have failed, whether there is any meaning for spirituality at all, whether the whole thing is a farce that we are going through. Are we just trying to suffer from certain feelings of attachments or sentimental attachments to
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