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Rakshasa through Danda (punishment). Sama, Dana, Danda, Bhedha are the four means, of converting creatures to the dharma. By persuasion, by gifts and by dialectical argument and lastly by force or punishment men have been educated. Perhaps we may see clearly that these four ways are suitable to four types of men or all may be required in some cases. Fraternity will be imperilled if only force is used. These methods are all political, and social, and hardly spiritual. But it may be said that these methods are not all fraternity-encouraging.
Brotherhood concept thus has entirely to be removed from its social setting and turned to spiritual assistance and without any distinction. In spiritual life it is necessary to discover the nature of man and accordingly offer assistance as elder brothers on the path. Master calls all his followers or disciples associates, those who are associated with him for the great work of liberation of man or oneself and therefore offering free service to all those who aspire to know their nature. This fraternity is in service and realized through service of every one in the same spirit that animates one's own spiritual aspiration.
The whole world is one and it is one of the greatest ideals of the human race to achieve this fraternity of all races. Mostly thanks to the growth of science and the impact of man on man, we are realizing that despite the divergent tendencies of certain types of men every where, the human being is seeking to get over the threat to its very existence. A world government is being thought of as the most feasible method of saving humanity itself from self- destruction and annihilation that means annihilation of all life itself on this planet thanks to science. But fraternity is not capable of being merely realized by the mere concepts of economic equal distribution or even by the removal of all those conditions that breed war and strife and rivalry. Spiritual disruption that has been underway has to be removed and spiritual unity has to be forged in the hearts of men as well as in their ideologies. It is surely a great thing that though materialism has scored victories, it is not so much matter but ideology that moved it to such expansion of its claims for equality and fraternity of all peoples everywhere, though people have been reckoned as human when they conform to the theory of working class or the proletariat. We are passing out of that rigid limitation of work to manual labour, but we are already in the equation of work with clerical and