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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 7
for the entire humanity to liberate itself from the clutches of the illusory egotistic possessiveness and arrogance and work globally and cosmically.
On the throes of a new Era there is need for a radical reassessment of the human situation especially concerning those basic values that give life some satisfactory meaning. We need something that will supply in our times what was supplied formerly by our traditional stories of religions. If we are to achieve this purpose, we must begin where everything begins in human affairs with the basic story, our narrative of how things came to be, how they came to be as they are, and how the future generations can be given some satisfying direction. We need a story that will educate us, a story that will heal, guide and discipline us.
Our present predicament is that we are in between two stories. The old Puranic stories which gave us the account of how the world came to be and how we fit into it provided by the religions, is no longer effective. But we have not got any new story. Our traditional story of the universe created by God
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