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WHEN OUT OF REALITY WE BECOME SATAN
Master in his message on the occasion of a seminar on Superstition and Spirituality way back in late sixties of the last century made a series of remarkable statements when he said “When we are out of light we fall in darkness. When we are out of wisdom we become fools. When we are out of reality we become Satan.” He was talking about the deterioration that happens in religions and makes another categorical statement that ‘...the religion is for the masses and spirituality is for the selected few.’ Differentiating between the grosser things and finer things in religion, he stated that ‘To the subtle minds the idea of the greatest is understood and to the grosser minds only the idea of grossness is evident. They connect the grosser things with the religion and if even a lie is spoken a hundred times it becomes the truth’. How religions degenerate over a period of time and how ritualistic practices replace
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