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attempt to break down the very ridge poles of the spiritual roof, and in their ignorant and superstitious conceptions of truth try to drive away all that is life-giving, all that furnishes the formative material to the spiritual plant growing in the human soul-such forms of religion find too soon that all of what is left to them is but an empty shell, a contentless frame of words or perhaps sophistry, with a little flavour of social scavengering, the so-called spirit of reform. 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. That is why yo or works like street-cleaning and scavengering intended to increase the material comfort of man are to them the alpha and the omega, the "be-all" and the "end-all" of human existence! The sooner the followers of this curious mixture of ignorance and fanaticism come out in their true colours, and join, as
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THE AIM OF BHAKTI-YOGA.
