INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

RELIGION – PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION
towards santi (peace). This is lasting peace and not
capable of being disturbed by the next onslaught.
Temporary restorations are all that psychiatrist tinkering
can do.
This is not to hold the view that religious
institution of the Guru is not abused. We are not
concerned with the professional misuse of all sciences
and arts. The craftiness of man overtakes all crafts and
makes man pessimistic about men. This is as much a
modern danger as it was in ancient times but only much
greater.
True religious transformation demands one’s
going beyond the objectifications of religious ideas and
techniques. The tendency of all institutions to live for
themselves and not for the purpose for which they were
devised is a psychological fact or law which one should
not be blind to.
True spiritual peace is possible only through
spiritual freedom. This peace is something
incommunicable. It is something not only felt within the
individual heart but also by those who live with such as
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