• I do not believe that humans can ever establish a paradise / a perfect society / a Utopia on Earth. Beliefs in Utopia have led to establishment of totalitarian societies and the founding of hell (and not a heaven) on Earth, in the past.
• Often the road to perdition is paved with good intentions.
• Freedom and tolerance are values that should never be shortchanged for daydreams of establishment of a blemish less ideal social order.
• Value orientation of individual lives and institutional lives are key imperatives For building a better world.
• There is truth in every religion. No religion or philosophy or political ideology can claim that it has the monopoly of truth and goodness and beauty.
• Christianity has contributed much to establishment of a better social order, but it has to shed its superior stance among religions.
• Hinduism is based on tolerance, but today it imitates the revealed religions in becoming intolerant and fundamentalist. Islam has to undergo a sea change to rule out violence and practice tolerance in a plural world.
• Other religions do swim with the current and do not threaten the formation of a plural and peaceful society.

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Excerpts from books GOSPEL OF GURU SREENARAYANA, ViswaVidya
Treat pleasure and pain , gain and loss ,victory and defeat ,prosperity and adversity ,heat and cold ,rain and sunshine , day and night and all dwandas alike. The manifested world is a network of dwandas , an endless parade of the opposites. Solve one pair another pair is born with a shrill or a silent shriek....
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