roots of depression -7-

The present democracy was gained...

by the un-Christian, un-spiritual laws of wholesale murder and slaughter.

I believe in the Spiritual Democracy which Mahatma Gandhi is trying to establish by the peaceful ways of love, and by the renunciation of luxury. When people renounce luxury, man will not have to slave from 8 am until 6 pm.

He will not have to forget the rise of the dawn, and the sun creeping silently over the hills and dales. He will not have to bolt his breakfast down his throat, or run to the train in order to be a part in the mad whirl of this world’s machinery. Only to come back home, tired and angry, ready to collide with a neglected nagging wife.

Industrial life is destroying réal human life.

That introspective, meditative, restful, peaceful, cálm life.

And is plunging people in the mad war...

of selfishness and insatiable greed.

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The Christ-way...

and the Gandhi-way...

give all 'each for all and all for each'...

And so also does the Yogoda-way of seeking self-happiness by making all others happy. These three are the only ways of burning the roots of depression, and stabilizing the economic condition of the world. Also are they the surest methods of destroying crime, poverty, and wars.

Material and financial equality, and an equal standard of plain living by banishing luxuries, will give man more time to enjoy his family, to hear uplifting educational discourses, and also more time for meditation, peace, and the Bliss-contact of God.

Community ownership of property by mutual spiritual agreement will make impossible forevermore the nightmares of taxes and sudden foreclosures on home mortgages after a lifetime of payments.


~yogananda~
HOW TO BURN OUT
THE ROOTS OF DEPRESSION...
(1932 !!)