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a man arises who knows how to incarnate a fundamental world idea in his person, as Buddha and Christ succeeded in doing, then he goes on living through all eternity." “ ઘણા માણસે તે તેમનું મૃત્યુ થાય તે પહેલાં જ ખરેખરા મરી ગયેલા હોય છે. એટલે કે તેઓ સ્થૂળ સ્વરૂપે જીવતા રહેવા છતાં જાગૃતિના દીપ ધારણ કરતા અટકી ગયેલા હોય છે. અમુક મર્યાદિત કાળ કરતાં વધારે બહુ જ થોડા માણસો જીવે છે. પરંતુ કવચિત્ એવો માનવી પેદા થાય છે, જે કાઈ મૂળભૂત વિશ્વવિચારને પોતાની જાતમાં મૂર્તિમંત કરે છે, જેમ બુદ્ધ અને ઈશુ કરી શકયા તેમ. તે શાશ્વતકાળ જીવતા રહે છે.” અનિષ્ટની હરતી વિષે કેટલાક વિચારો બહુ ગંભીર ચિંતન બતાવનારા છે : "Now it is certain that evil has its definite and necessary function in the economy of the world. Destruction alone prepares the way for a radical innovation. If there is to be serious progress, then the natural processes of growth and decay must occasionally be accelerated. Only revolution explodes old rigid forms, only the premature end of generations, such as war brings about, rends the thread of fettering tradition. World-embracing cultures would never have come to exist if one species of men had not subjugated others and thus raised certain forms, out of the jungle of wild luxuriance to predominance. Last and not least death and killing are normal processes of nature. ... The Indian myth according to which creation and destruction are correlative attributes of the deity is apparently very near to the truth; at times evil is divinely ordained. Only man should not usurp the position of Shiva; what is befitting to Him, man may not desire deliberately; the inevitability of death does not justify the murderer. Just as birth and natural death are beyond the sphere of personal volition so does the general scheme according to which the whole life evolves stand above individual judgement. ... But men only do rarely what they ought to do, all the more rarely the more consciously they act. And where they undertake to determine events, believing themselves to know the plan of the whole, they work mischief. It leads to insensate wars, to all exterminating revolutions; the selfregulation of nature is destroyed and folly gains the victory.
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