Man’s Search for Truth

this would be a discovery for deniers of religion, while it would be a rediscovery for believers. ‘Religion,’ here, is not used in its conventional meaning, which is a significantly reduced version. The present versions of religion developed in later generations when ‘religious’ people became victims of degeneration. These days, when a person is ‘born into’ a particular religious community, he knows only this reduced form of religion. He becomes familiar with this reduced form of religion to a prejudicial extent. To know the original version of religion, people must come out of the veils of their prejudices. Going beyond the degenerated forms of religion, we need to discover the true form and face of religion. It can be called the ‘Rediscovery of Religion’. Without this ‘rediscovery’, understanding religion’s true importance and meaning will be impossible. RELIGION AND HUMAN LIFE A human personality consists of a body and a soul. To stay healthy, man requires nourishment for both. Religion is man’s spiritual nourishment. It is food for man’s soul. What is Religion? The crux of religion is what is generally called ‘Spirituality.’ religion is another name for spiritual science. If other scientific disciplines are about external or physical realities, religion is that science that studies the inner man. A human personality is manifested in two ways—body and soul. For the health and progress of both, man requires continuous nourishment. The nourishment for the body is material stuff: food and drink. If someone were to stay without food and drink for a while, it would affect their physical condition. They would die if they faced hunger and thirst for a long time.