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which can be helping us to have a more harmonious society than we have been having.
Conscience has been hailed to be a discordant note in a political society. Conscience is the only note that can bring us together in a spiritual society. That is why if even politics is to be purified, this conscience has to come into its own. That is a truth which Gandhiji fully realized and affirmed. Nobody emphasized it so greatly as he in his own political life, and in his own religious one.
But the danger has been, as we know, the preoccupation with politics too early. Before it has become illumined in the hearts of every being, people were gathered and carried away by what is called the glamour of a conscience of one man rather than the conscience of every man clamouring for its own, harmonious formulation in the whole.
Now you ask me whether I do believe that these consciences will not collide with each other and cast shadows on each other. No! If they are taken up to the highest point to which our own srutis have gone, it is possible to have it. So how to hear the sruti is the problem. How each one of us is to become a mantra-drishta, how to see the mantra which each one of those people saw? What is a mantra? The technical meaning of the word mantra, is, that by thought to cross over. It is that process by which you cross over all the limitations of an individuality, and separatism, and disharmony by getting at that thought which makes for liberation of your Self. If the Veda has been considered to be a doctrine of liberation and not merely a doctrine of rites and rituals, it is there that we get these things. And any scripture that has gone up to that point, when it has been capable, by means of the highest thought, to liberate us and take us beyond it, that would be a scripture and a revelation.
On the contrary everybody is given mantras but the mantras belong to a lower order. So what is that mantra which we can, and which we are, to get? As this system of Sri Ramchandra's Raja Yoga fully puts it, the original manas or thought which is first born of the first mind of God is that which is capable of being the force by which a transcendence of being is possible. And that force which is qualified by this rhythm, or by its vibration, can not only control your entire being but reorganize you and prepare you to hear