enon and leads to development. Progress in ones thinking leads to the development of the personality, and a balanced evolution is necessary for a durable effect. Balanced evolution is brought about by incorporating experiences and time tested ideas of the past into the practice of the present. A new age perspective is needed for the examination of even the axioms of the past. There is no need to tamper with them as they are true for all time. Their dimensions can, however, be grasped differently with the passage of time and can be understood in the context of the present situation, giving a new glow to understanding them.

Readers looking far a different approach to religion and generally every other subject, will perhaps, find the essays interesting and cajoling.

Gone are the times when one could live in isolated compartments of societies and the boundaries of different countries. Globalization has made it imperative to examine and understand others point of view in an atmosphere of accommodation and tolerance. This has brought about a universal evolution of the whole of humanity.