As life has been made for the time being comfortable and comparatively effortless by modern inventions, the ease-loving man is prone to disregard the place of religion in his life and exalt the values of materialistic view of things. Events are slowly disclosing the unreliability of the purely objective views and methods of physical science, since it is the experience of man that he is not really happier, and the world is not in fact better, even after his daring attempts at extracting out of external nature the secrets of its resources in order to utilise the same for his own purposes. The purely physical outlook is not compatible with the inner truth of the real man, for, religious discipline, and not bodily pleasure, is the role to be followed in the course of right living. Let it not be thought that religion is a dogmatic, other-worldly, pet tradition of blind believers or irrational emotionalists. Religion is the most rational science of man as he essentially is, not merely as he presumes himself to be.
Religion is the way to the realisation of the highest perfection.
If perfection is a possibility, religion is real, and it is the only method befitting the human ideal. Real religion is not divorced from philosophical wisdom or alien to the spiritual science of the Self. If the self is an established fact, and the knowledge of it is true, the way to it also is true and established. This established way is religion. Many religions appear on the surface when they are not strictly based on the general reality of all.