Page 165 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 9

NEW ERA
monk and the monastery, in every religion, and the other to the academies, institutions of education and ashrams, where righteous thinking, higher rationality that showed the values of cooperative living, purposive self-control to bring about personal and social change. But as ironically renunciation was tried to be yoked to educational techniques, indeed education was taken over by the ashrams and sannyasins and fakirs so much so rationality was made to suit the monastic will. In fact with all the will to bring about a change in human nature by transforming its sensate and animal nature, it had inculcated the dogma or axiom of renunciation of social life or societal life as the sine qua non of spiritual liberty or freedom or even rationality. However with the enlarging of the spheres of activity of the monks, monk ethics and social psychology said to be ethics of a higher Nature or spirituality more and more began to take the shape and form of the lower nature. This is one of the major disturbing factors. It has unfortunately led to the conviction that human nature is by nature corrupt and despite heroic and martyric efforts to bring about lasting change towards divine life, it tends to revert to its animal basis as more secure for its continuance. The problem is all the more important for the sadhakas
who desperately attempt to conquer the lower mind 153