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aspects and form different sciences, we can never separate them. They are organic to each other. There are people or rather scientists who discovered the economic man, the political man, the religious man, the aesthetic man and so on. On the basis of this, sciences such as economics, sociology, political science, religious science and aesthetics have come into being; very useful within limits, they always tend to apply their laws or hypotheses beyond limits as if man was exhausted by each one of them. This has led in modern times to very lopsided developments. Man has been forgotten by the sciences. Man is more than all that the different sciences have made of him. These several aspects are properties of man's rationality, that quality or dharma or guṇa, which realises itself in the several activities in which he engages. Thus the organization of this personality is the aim of his own life; but it is not possible through any particular mechanism of any social order or the State. The State should remember that the individual is more than the sum of his social and economic and legal life. Religion also should remember that its serious purpose is the discovery of the inward reality in each individual which it must help by giving it freedom and flexibility and the environment necessary for such a great thing as individual realisation, which is also the fulfilment of the society of which he continues to be a member. The State must protect the sanctity of the environments of those who have out of their own
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