Role of Religion in Politics. . .(23) We have to socialize everything. We may socialize our trade, business, commerce, transport, land, and industry. But this is not enough. Nationalization of many of the important means of production and distribution is not merely unavoidable in the modern context, but also legitimate as steps to the all-round uplift of man, to the raising of the living standard of the people. But above all these nationalizations, there is urgency for another type of nationalization which is the most important of all. This is the socialization of mind, the collectivization of sympathy and interest, the nationalization of powers, especially, of the gifted individuals of a community. We have to socialize our minds, ourselves first of all. It is only by doing this that we can ensure collective, all round human-welfare. In Soviet Russia, which has successfully established economic socialism, the collective life of the people and wealth of the country are managed by a small group of people. What is the impulse behind this group? Are they inspired by a spirit of service to the society? Have they socialized their interests and sympathies? What guarantee is there in their philosophy of life against present or eventual misuse of the trust reposed by society in them? Man must regard himself as a fraction struggling to become an integer thorough selfless service of society; society is thus a wider school for him through which he attains self-realization, and the experience of a largeness and a fullness. Source: Eternal Values for a Changing Society, Pub. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Vol. 4, p. 116 Role of Religion in Politics (To be continued. . .)
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