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issued in countries dominated by purely national, socialistic or materialistic ideologies, is bound in the long run to break up the State itself. The State or even Society cannot become God or the sole object of loyalty because it cannot satisfy the deepest impulse of the soul for the knowledge of itself completely. Real mokṣa is sought after and it means not liberty for getting goods and satisfactions or the liberty before the eye of law and right to equal opportunity but the liberty to be freed from the cycle of births and deaths and the terror of constant birth and death.
Religion supplies this and it alone can supply this. Spiritual pain is verily different from all other kinds of pain and fear. It cannot be assuaged by any offer of worldly wealth, or divine pleasures of even the rigid life of dharma. Great men have thrown away empires for the sake of freedom from all these. The artha and kāma purusārthas are tuccha. A world dominated by them is a delusion, a snare. Man should seek to get out of them, free himself from them. But such a freedom is difficult without the opening of the soul to real light. Teachers of religion know how to help these men. The preservation of religious texts and institutions facilitates the seeker of liberation on his path. Inner illumination or desire needs the support of the religious literature and methods. The company of the good or knowers of the path of inner discovery shower peace and
prepare the conditions for one's own growth. 107