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106 aggravated through association with others. Besides the above there may be many other inherent tendencies (Samskaras) which turn out to be the causes of these. We seem to have no control over our Samskaras, but our strong-minded effort (Purushakara) can work wonders. It can change them, nay, it can destroy them. When they are changed for the better they help rather than retard us. It is through effort, as facilitated by association with the good, that new tendencies (Samskaras) can be formed and the bad ones changed.

Until we associate with those who have seen, felt, and realized Religion in their lives we can not fully know what it is, and in what its universality and necessity lie.

Everybody in the world is a seeker after truth. The spirit of inquiry is in all. But it is dulled and the willingness to know the truth is dampened, because distractions are many, tendencies are or grow to be perverse, and monsters of the world are also numerous.