these signs, does not learn any lessons from
them and fails to be rightly guided.
For the last 5000 years, the great minds of the
world have been endeavouring to arrive at the
truth through philosophic pursuits, but after a
long struggle, all that they have learned is that
the discipline of philosophy iswholly inadequate
to lead man to any certain destination.
After the emergence of modern science, man
thought that he could discover the truth by
scientific methods. Finally, he has come to
the conclusion that scientific methods can lead
man only to a knowledge of things, it cannot
lead man to the knowledge of truth.
For the last several thousand years, man
believed that he could arrive at the truth by
employing spiritual methods. It was believed
that man’s heart was a reservoir of reality. And
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