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ASK MAULANA Your Questions Answered Maulana Wahiduddin Khan answers your questions on society and spirituality. Some people talk about a world without borders, what is your opinion about this? A world without borders is one in which people should be able to live anywhere, work anywhere and contribute anywhere—for the world is one. All thinking people have a beautiful dream—that of living in a world without borders. But for all these people, this only remains a dream, as no one has ever been able to actualize it. As far as I am concerned I can say that I have made it a reality. I always actually live in a world without borders. In my experience, the concept of a world without borders is quite an achievable target. In a single sentence, I can say that a world without physical borders may not be achievable, but a world without psychological borders is quite attainable for anyone who so desires it. There is no need for external permission for this purpose: every individual can enter into this state—by his own decision. In one of your articles you have presented spirituality as a solution to eradicate corruption. My question is, how to inculcate spirituality among people? Basically I feel it is a part of education, both formal and informal. Education means the training of the mind, with special emphasis on inculcating high values. To spread spiritual values in society, we need value-based education, especially during schooling, which is a preparatory period of life, and if we want to build a spiritual society, we must adopt a spirituality-oriented form of education. Kindly explain how exactly spirituality will stop a person from being corrupt? One aspect of spirituality is that it makes one evaluate actions in terms of their results—a major factor in having a sense of responsibility. One who is a spiritually developed person is able to see things in terms of value. He is able to differentiate between right and wrong. There is a saying: ‘A wise man is one who knows the relative value of things.’ The spiritually developed person is a wise person and a wise person is one