A  STORY

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Once a man and the devil were walking down a lonely street on a moonless night. As they went along, they saw another figure in front of them.

“Who is that?” asked the man.

“Well, he is a man, like you,” answered the devil.

They then saw him pick up something from the ground.

“What has he picked up?” asked the man.

“He has picked up the Truth,” was the answer.

“What will he do with it?”

“Oh, he will share it with his friends.”

“Will they understand it?”

“Well ...” smiled the devil, and paused. “ They will build temples out of it

and throw the Truth out!”

The devil paused again and smiled to let the point sink into the man’s

head.

“ And then my role begins,” continued the devil.

The man was stupefied.

So”, said the devil, “I am happy man has picked up the Truth!”

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 The Truth picked up my man, institutionalized and often fossilised by him into religious dogma and creed, is subtly worked over by the devilish intentions of bigotry and obscurantism.

Let man pick up the Truth again.

Let the Truth reside in temples once again.

And let the Truth be perceived there by men all around.

Let the devil not feel happy that man has picked up the Truth.

Let the temple feel happy that Truth has indeed been reinstated there.

Let the devil look for other avenues to exercise his powers. Man being what he is, and his predilections being what they are, he will give the devil plenty of other places to work very hard over, for sure.

Let religion not be one of them.

Gandhi’s thought may provide man the necessary strength to pick up the Truth once again.

And this time the devil may not be happy.

Is man ready?

Otherwise, the devil sure is.