Vivekananda Mailing List-8/24/03

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The vast mass of those whose religion is like this, are conscious or

unconscious materialists — the end and aim of their lives here and

hereafter being enjoyment, which indeed is to them the alpha and the

omega of human life, and which is their Ishtâpurta; work like

street-cleaning and scavengering, intended for the material comfort of

man is, according to them, the be-all and end-all of human existence;

and the sooner the followers of this curious mixture of ignorance and

fanaticism come out in their true colours and join, as they well

deserve to do, the ranks of atheists and materialists, the better will

it be for the world.