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regular meditation practitioners in the USA alone.
Vegetarianism is picking up throughout the world. Now there
is greater respect and regards for other species. Like us, the
animals and birds are body and soul together - they feel the
joy and pain as we do. Growth of meditation and vegetarianism
throughout the world is a silent movement without any
government's involvement. Nor the world body of United
Nations is playing any role. It is the pure peoples' movement -
a silent revolution. While this has many underlining features,
the first and foremost is the scientific temper that is prevailing
in the common man's mind in the present modern scientific
age. Nobody accepts anything that does not meet his reason.
Furthermore to the reason, the particular idea must sound
beneficial to him and his fellow beings. Thus, in nutshell, the
ideas must appeal to his head and heart both. No existing
religious book can come clean after the common man's dual
scrutiny from his head and heart both. He had been exploring
these books for many centuries. Now he is tired and fed up
with the conflicts and wars that are seen everywhere in the
world from an individual's heart to the huge battlefields.
Indeed, now there is suspicion about religions in the common
man's mind that they support irrational beliefs, immoral and
even terrorist acts, and many other unacceptable things.
There is another class of people who disowned religions long
ago and believed in matter and matter alone - they thought
that they were body alone without the soul. One such example
is that of communists. In less than a century, communism has
been disowned by the very people who gave birth to it. They
are fed up with the dry ideas void of soul. Within this group of
people come also the scientists and academicians who had been
studying the creation in its minutest detail. But they ignored
the creator all these years because the prevailing religious
books lacked the rigor and rationality that they are used to.
They too are now tired of their arrogance that was reflected by
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