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Now comes the question: Can religion really accomplish anything? It

can. It brings to man eternal life. It has made man what he is, and

will make of this human animal a god. That is what religion can do.

Take religion from human society and what will remain? Nothing but a

forest of brutes. Sense-happiness is not the goal of humanity. Wisdom

(Jnâna) is the goal of all life. We find that man enjoys his intellect

more than an animal enjoys its senses; and we see that man enjoys his

spiritual nature even more than his rational nature. So the highest

wisdom must be this spiritual knowledge. With this knowledge will come

bliss. All these things of this world are but the shadows, the

manifestations in the third or fourth degree of the real Knowledge and

Bliss.

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