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NEW ERA
be brutes; they have become brutes.” (Reference: Dr. K.C.V. Vol.1 - pg 100) is true.
However dispassionate consideration of the progress we have made so far makes us say that the modern man or rather man living in the modern world is placed in an advantageous position today more than ever to meet the demands of our higher nature which we apprehend in the form of our ideals of civilization or spirituality. This is due to the fact that several religious have already prepared the grounds for the perception, cultivation and habituation to the ideals of religion and spirituality- each in its measures and also each in a broad sphere of taming the instincts of pugnacity, separatism, egoism and brutal way of living not only with one’s own family members but also with neighbours and aliens. Religious injunctions though they have prohibited many uncivil ways of behaviour have moulded only slowly and negligibly our inner and personal life. It is true that in some cases it has been otherwise, in one’s personal life one has indeed been restrained and self-controlled but in the mass or in public life many have run amok if not wild. It is a fact that man has not been able to transform his animal nature, or sublimate it in any way and this is our problem in transforming ourselves.
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