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common. However Master says by the end of 1880's this spiritual atmosphere was tottering hopelessly and therefore the Advent of our Grand Master Revered Lalaji Maharaj has taken place. Our Country's soul is spirituality and that was in trouble. Materialistic values have started taking deep roots in the wake of the call for political freedom. There were of course voices like that of the great Master Swami Vivekananda that political freedom is not an end in itself and we should gain spiritual freedom. But his voice perhaps with that of others did not have impact on the saviours of the day in the political and economic areas save but a few. "Our leaders maddened with the wine of newly acquired powers, devoid of discrimination between temporary and permanent values of life, fierce like wild animals started cornering the benefits of the newly acquired political status and with their thinking resting on matter and its various applications addicted to the aggrandisement of self by exploiting others wealth, having no faith what so ever in the life here after, which is the distinguishing feature of the spiritual and religious belief of this land, all in the name of scientific temperament, and condemning their
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