To promote the latter we have universities and research institutions. But the supreme opportunity for everyone with no exception lies in the first’.

I have discussed earlier the limitations of physical science as well as the limitations of dogma bound religion, and have referred to Swami Vivekananda’s strong plea to subject religion to rational scrutiny. In the wake of the materialistic world-picture of nineteenth- century science, religion came under the attack of not only physical science, but also of a philosophy and of a movement known as rationalism, which has done good work to encourage clear thinking.