I often ask people: Is non-violence good? Is non-possession good? Do you have any experience of them?
The answer I got is, that so far as experience is concerned, they have not had it ever. I then ask them, “Then, how can you say that non-violence and non-possession are good? Prompt comes the reply: “We believe it because that particular scripture says so.”
This compels us to conclude that such religious people are responsible for robbing religion of its lustre and for enfeebling the glory of non-violence and non-possession. Whenever mere repetition of scriptural texts increases and personal experience decreases, the scriptures gain in lustre but religion loses it.
~Acharya Mahapragya
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