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Leading A Spiritual Life

English book, p. 83

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Politico-Spiritual Rendezvous of physical health and in the development of a healthy personality. There is much discussion about the necessity for social reform. But this has not come about, because although all the efforts made to this end have been Himalayan, they have proved infructuous. Why is this so? It is because the starting point is not the right one. The starting point must be to bring about change in the individual. The mind of the individual must be addressed in order to revolutionize his thinking. This is the right and only way to carry out social reform. Other methods have proved ineffective. Politico-Spiritual Rendezvous If spirituality is inner science, politics is external discipline. We need both. T he well-known English poet Rudyard Kipling once said, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet. This maxim has been proved untrue as far as the West and the East equation is concerned, but in respect of the equation of spirituality and politics, this undoubtedly holds true. The fact is that spirituality and politics are both full-fledged disciplines, both need total involvement. So, each can become involved in the other’s discipline

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