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which none desires to repeat. It has been an experience of misery. The doctrine that life is an illusion was propounded as the guarantee against any possible desire of the masses to break the bondage. The fable of a higher life was fabricated to deccive them to keep them reconciled to the miscry of the carthly life in the hope of getting “pie in the sky". You are in bondage, but the bondage itself is an illusion. So, don't bother about it. Be a happy slave-resigned to your slavery.
It is sheer perversity to glorify this view of lisc as “spiritualist ”. It is a downright deception. This “spiritualist” philosophy has been the undoing of India. If the conditions of earthly life are matters of indifference, if the pursuit of the ideal of human existence is not determined by those conditions, society loses all incentive to progress. The revolt of the masses against the given conditions of life is the lever of social evolution. In the absence of this factor of ferment, society stagnates, sinks into degradation, demoralisation and decay. Thanks to the blessed “spiritualist” view of life, Indian society has been stagnating for centuries. The result has been political slavery for nearly a thousand years, economic backwardness, intellectual inertia, and cultural degradation.
The British conquest of India is one of the most puzzling phenomena of history. How could a handful of adventurous merchants, coming
