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Reason and the Heart 104.Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the test of reason and universal assent. –YI, 26-2-25-, 74. 105. Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason. –YI, 14-10-26, 359. 106. I have come to this fundamental conclusion that if you want something really important to be done, you must not merely satisfy reason, you must move the heart also. The appeal of reason is more to the head but the penetration of the heart comes from suffering. It opens up the inner understanding in man. 107. But He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect if He ever does. God to be God must rule the heart and transform it. YI, II-Io-28, 340. No room for Unintelligence any where 108. Man alone can worship God with knowledge and understanding. Where devotion to God is void of understanding, there can be no true salvation, and without salvation there can be no true happiness. GH, I29. 109. Truth and nonviolence are not for the dense. Pursuit of them is bound to result in an all-round growth of the body, mind and heart. If this does not follow, either truth and nonviolence are untrue or we are untrue, and since the former is impossible, the latter will be the only conclusion. –H, 8-5-37, 98. 110. You must know that a true practice of ahimsa means also in one who practices it the keenest intelligence and wide-awake conscience. –H, 8-9-40, 274. 111. Swaraj is for the awakened, not for the sleepy and the ignorant. –H, 28-1-39, 437. 112. In every branch of reform constant study giving one a mastery over one’s subject is necessary. Ignorance is at the root of failures, partial or complete, of al reform movements whose merits are admitted, for every project masquerading under the name of reform is not necessarily worthy of being so designated. –H, 24-4-37, 84. 113. A handicraft plied merely mechanically can be as cramping to the mind and soul as any other pursuit taken up mechanically. An unintelligent effort is like a corpse from which the spirit has departed.
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