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Practice and Efficacy of Sri Ramchandra’s Rajayoga
regular feature. But all was for making Sri Venkateswara more well known and popular. We have been expanding and Tirupati became a really all-India centre of pilgrimage... But in my inner thoughts one thing alone has been growing - a deep distrust and agony of an indescribable kind. There was perfect loss of hope about a renaissance in spirituality and growth of true philosophic evolution. More and more it became clear that institutions of religions can only lead to subtle corruption, and all sorts of persons take the shelter of religion for the furtherance of their own vanity and livelihood. God becomes the vehicle for individual adventure.... Philosophy suffered an eclipse in this place when the University came and a professor who had hardly any belief in philosophy was appointed to it.
Thus, Visistadvaita became non-grata and every attempt to improve it had failed. Thus I was forced to the conclusion that it is futile to resurrect it or attempt to waste one's life over it. Its votaries were working against it: a suicidal affair. The philosophy is not obviously wrong- intellectually to
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