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Evolution into True Spirituality
What is the necessity for the New System when there are so many missions about us working for the spiritual uplift of the people? The necessity for this Mission is not a doctrinaire necessity. Nor is it a necessity for giving just ideas about God or individual salvation, which are said to be capable of liberating man from his miseries of the world around him. Ideas gain force and are forces only when they cease to be just ideas. Ideas have legs or rather grow legs only when a dedicated soul gives them power. Bad ideas engender bad forces as in the case of ideas of inequality, class-conflict and religious differences. Similarly, good ideas are those which promote unity and charity, truthfulness and non-violence, personal necessity for character and devotion to supreme ideals of welfare and spiritual growth. Tolerance and personal cleanliness in mind, body and speech are the necessity and these ideas, though they have been bandied about both by those who follow them and those who pay lip-homage to them while practising contra-ideas, and ideals, lead to a dangerous condition of corruption of the mind and morals of mankind. Therefore, individual missions must watch whether corruption has crept into their body politic and their souls are torn with pragmatic compromises in the name of need for unity. Unity can become a terrible catch-word even as Advaita has become and not only does it create conditions of fission and frustration but also in the end defeats the goal of spiritual freedom from miseries of all kinds. Therefore, if we observe the workings and ideals of the several missions, we would be appalled by the divorce between ideas and facts or the force said to be motivating their practical operations. Therefore, new missions are needed to purify them or bring about a realistic relation between idea and force. But it has been found that new missions are springing up like mushrooms imitating all the weaknesses and perpetuating all the vices of the previous institutions so much so one gets disgusted with them and man seeks a non-institutionalised religious atmosphere and repels every suggestion of starting new missions. Shri Ram Chandra Mission has been started not merely to cultivate a new dogma nor imitate other missions to make real ideas forceless or prostitute them for the selfish purposes or even unselfish purposes of humanity. It is not just a mission for serving humanity in all its aspects nor just a revival or renaissance Institute for the rehabilitation of ancient religions in a new garb.