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and outside the person, is that the natural world and the human being is denuded of value and has become an object of commercial exploitation. The presence of the Divine light in the heart of all living beings is totally ignored and sought to be annihilated. Sanctity of life thus being lost now there are no restraints on exploitation. This resulted in tragic consequences where the individual person is denied intrinsic power, creativity, and value, leading to the loss of psychic energy and zest for life. The divine resource in us is totally ignored and any meaningful educational system has to restore this human dignity of being a temple of God. This is what we have been stressing when we were talking about divine resource development.
The modern culture whatever those words might mean has the inherent capacity to reinforce the illusions that the world consists of inert stuff out there and that we are the active agents of change whose role is to get that inert stuff into some order. This is the assumption on which most modern education has been based, an education aimed at
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