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ETERNAL LIGHT ♦ SANATAN JYOTI ♦ 2013To purify our soul by winning over the animal nature, there are four essentialrules. First, self-control and self-discipline as achieved by controlling sensesby focused mental practice. The second is being truthful. The third rule is topractice selfless love and the fourth rule is to perform selfless duties.Performance of good deeds in association with good characters and goodrules of living leads humans to enhanced wisdom which in turn leads them toself-knowledge. As the saying goes, “Conquer habit by counter habit.”When humans are animal-like, they are extremely selfish, bound by desires,inclined toward fulfilling their senses, and becoming slaves of sins. At thisstage, they lose the desire for purity, truth and morality. Fulfilling bodilydesires becomes their primary goal of life. They shun spiritual ideals andbelieve that spending time and energy on religious discussions is fruitless.Carnal desire, ego, anger, greed, infatuation, envy, and disgust are thenatural outcomes of such attitudes. The thirst for desire is a true disease.Those who practice restraining their minds from desire and anger canbecome truly happy and peaceful by achieving the knowledge of Brhman. Selfcontrol is easy for those who can test their minds to discover their ownweaknesses and attempt at correcting their faults. It is easy for them toachieve peace. The true objective of religion is to help us to achieve peacethrough the knowledge of Brhman. The goal of human life is to focus ourscattered thoughts toward our inner soul to gain self-realization.Ideas and experiences about religion and its ideals in occidental countries arevery different. The religion to men and women of these countries is defined bythe practice of narrow rules and customs. Since these practices areconflicting to each other, arguments and infractions are created.Consequently, as a result of these conservatisms, one religious group tries todestroy another group so that the winner can impose their own religion on thelosing group.BHARAT SEVASHRAM SANGHA OF NORTH AMERICA, CHICAGO 37