Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India May 1946

Yet how familiar is the spectacle in all countries of the increasing worship at the temple of mammon even tough the chances of the deity being gracious to ninety-nine per cent of the worshippers are practically nil ? Starting with the elementary urge to fulfil the needs of food and 'clothing the desire for possession and enjoment grows on what it fee(ls. [...] With the happily growing diminution of the separatism into classes and groups among men with the increasing growth of the feeling of being in the same boat among the proletariat of the world there has arisen a corresponding increase in the sentiment of common brotherhood. [...] Instead of an ideal of social national and intenational competition tending towards the destruction of mankind we want people to consider the replacing of the ideals of the selfish pursuit of wealth and political power by the ideals of economic sharing with the less favoured and political uplift of the more backward peoples of the world. [...] For thousands of years millions and millions all over the world have been taught to worship the Lord of the world the Incarnations the saviours the prophets. [...] It is the quinessence of all the Vedas and it leads to the realization of the different ends of lifSakalapurusharthasiddhi ; it enables you to realize the different ends of life—Dharma Artha Kama and Moksha.