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NEW ERA
Transformation which involves the bringing down of a superior mind or super-mind into almost every human being so that he begins to think and act in terms of the laws of the supermind or cosmic consciousness: a way of life as expounded by the Sri Ramakrishna-Vivekananda order, taking up the service of humanity as the service of God in man. There are many more such paths and new ones that are coming up by the day even as the mushrooms. However in all these paths the discovery of the soul of man or search for it has been an eternal one, it came to one person here and one person there in early times, but the problem is confronting every one simultaneously now.
Science has created its own problems. The scientific pragmatic age has produced astounding problems of knowledge and technology and has made an earlier appeal to God almost impossible. We are today either atheists or agnostics. Man has been made to feel that within him alone lies his salvation whether there are gods or God. This dependence on one self on personal commitment to live rationally and peacefully with one’s neighbours with the minimum of needs fully attained - not at all impossible as he thinks it – is absolutely the one thing that the modern man cares for. The way of life
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