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wars. I most humbly submit to you to go kindly read the story of the life of Rev. Lalaji Maharaj. I could not think of any blissful condition ushered at the time of the Advent and for that matter in the about one and a half century since then. The time now is no better. All that comes to my mind is the bondages in which we were and we are. Earlier others enslaved us and now by option we are getting enslaved to alien culture and civilisation. As a cynic put it India lost its independence after gaining freedom. Moreover our wants and desires have swelled beyond measure that we are not sure whether there is any sanity still left in the way we live. However the problem is directly connected to as to how we live.
Recalling the thoughts of my revered father I may express that there are mainly two ways of living: one is to live according to Nature and the other is to live according to Spirit. Human life is not capable of adjusting wholly to the one or the other. By nature one may mean the uncultivated, ill disciplined, desire and instinct driven person. This has been one view from the earliest times. The other view about nature considers that it was a paradisiacal state of utmost equality of all men, out of which flowed the feelings of rationality of all men. In any case men did not
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