For clarity of thought, the mind must be fed by the components of the system of life. Clarity of thought is very much essential because actions are motivated by it. This is true of reasoning at all levels- individual, social, political, national, etc. All over the world we see at present the expression of reason, and the clash of reasons. One person's reason is a bullet in another's head. This is the 'Age of Reason' and no part of the world is outside its influence. That means reason by itself is potentially dangerous to all. Carl Gustav Jung, the psychologist, said: "We should never identify ourselves with reason, for man is not and never will be a creature of reason alone, a fact to be noted by all pedantic culture-mongers." Still, all say man a rational animal. It is definitely true, but it is shame to the animals.

The result of mere reasoning is hotchpotch morality, and fractured rationalism. When people are guided by reason alone, man literally shrinks to the level of being a rational animal. The nails in the body of Christ were made of man's reason. The same was true of the bullets in the chest of Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political and spiritual leader). We see the works of reason all over the world. Charlene Spretnak (a social activist) asks in 'States of Grace: The Recovery of meaning in the Post-modern Age': "Where is reason? Where is coherence? Where is truth, beauty, a love of life? Where is even the most basic impulse for self-preservation? What have we become?" Gandhi: "Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means 'par excellence' for developing the intellect. One may develop a sharp intellect otherwise too. But, then it will not be a balanced growth, but an unbalanced distorted abortion. It might easily make of one a rogue and a rascal."

Human personality is psychosomatic; its full potential can be had only with the alignment of mind and body. Both the body and the mind must be fed by the components of the system of life. That makes its food and its education. When education is merely a cerebral activity with no opportunity for the alignment of the body to it, the effect is potentially dangerous. Even the best educational institutions fail in shaping the mind because education now means imparting information, and not developing character. Here, the aim of education has deviated from the meaning of education that existed in many places in the past. Anything that goes into the mind is its education. Education is not merely limited to what is taught in the educational institutions. What should control the mind is the relationship that it has with the components of the system of life. What brings stability to the mind is Pure Reason, the expression of holistic rationalism that is the expression of the soul/self.

Reason contaminates everything created by God of which the excellent is the excellence of the human mind that brings happiness to it. Excellence of the mind is possible only when it is guided by its never-ending expression where it is yoked to the sensibility of the soul, the soul that has been bulldozed under the influence of the damaging reason.  Reason appears in the forms of religions promoting faiths that promote trade of every kind making the disease of the mind global. Since all our efforts at present are guided by reason, it has disoriented the human mind to such an extent that we find it difficult to distinguish between the right and the wrong . At present all our systems are under the deadly clasp of reason, and religions that clamor for power are no exception to it. Under the guidance of this confusing rationalism there has evolved an insensibility to life, and everything that supports it. This is the miracle of faith. When the society refuses to transfer the accumulated experiences in the form of rules and regulations, the result of its shirking from its responsibility is calamitous. For taking water from the source to the destination rigid pipes are used; if not, water will be spilled at the source itself. Only living according to Truth, and nothing else, can bring us happiness. Morality means living just according to that. Morality is not merely concerned with the sexual conduct of human beings. It means living according to the system of life - Truth.

             Mahatma Gandhi: "Personality, i.e.; the quality of being oneself, can be good or bad. If it is in conformity with the self it is good, and if it disregards the self it is bad." Immanuel Kant (1724-1804, German philosopher, author of 'Critique of Pure Reason'): "Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a Good Will. Intelligence, wit, judgment, and the other 'talents' of the mind, however they may be named, or courage, resolution, perseverance, as qualities of temperament are undoubtedly good and describable in many respects, but these gifts of nature may also become extremely bad and mischievous if the will which is to make use of them, and, which therefore constitutes what is called 'character', is not good."

The sanctity of the human mind must be left uncontaminated because the quality of life is based on its consciousness, and not on its acquisitions. Excellence of life is not a product of civilization; it is in the expression of culture. The expression of culture can be expressed only in its interactions with the objects that belong to the system of life. Buddha who lived more than 2500 years ago would became the Enlightened as he realized the importance of living on the basis of this relationship. Sankara (A.D.788-820, philosopher, India. wrote on spirituality, and religion): "Whatever happiness is felt by the possession of external objects comes as the result of merit acquired. With the enjoyment of such happiness the merit that produced it also becomes exhausted, the quantum of happiness becomes less, and finally comes to an end." Mere concern with man's creations cannot bring happiness to the human mind. When human mind is alienated from the components of the system of life it is even dangerous to the survival of life. This is because love that is essential for making life meaningful dries up as there no emotional interaction can take place between man and his material products. This is what we see in the advanced countries. Mind should not be absolutely the product of the objects of any civilization. There must be abundant room left for the expression of its culture too. The judgment is yours. It should be based on the link with life.

Zarathushtra (Zoroaster, ancient North Eastern Iran, around 17th Century BCE), the founder of Zoroastrianism, anticipated the confusion that can result in from the confusion in reasoning.

"Hear the best with your ears
and ponder with a bright mind.
Then each man and woman, for his or her self,
select either of the two, the better or the bad mentality.
Awaken to this doctrine of ours
before the great event of choice ushers in.";
                             (Zarathushtra's 'Gathas')

Coherence to thought and action can only emanate from the link with life, and not with our material creations of which the most dangerous are the ideology that promote materialism of all types. God is not the product of any faith. It is the sum total of the creativity in the Universe that made possible human life too. Nothing in the world of this reality works on the basis of faith. When people are guided by faith intelligent management that is necessary for life disappears from life. So religions that insist on faiths are becoming the promoters of ignorance. Ignorance is thus still powerful, and is armed with the best weapons of the civilization. Civilization has bulldozed over culture due to the numerical support that it has from the people.

Science with its analytical attitude should not disintegrate the scheme of God. Knowing the universe, and God's system without disintegrating it, should be the aim of all technologies. Man's greed should never defeat the scheme of God. Spirituality is in living with the system of life. What we require is the knowledge of the world that lies outside the worlds we create. Science speaks of the knowledge of the real world. Since this world is the expression of holistic rationalism, we need the right attitude towards everything that belongs to this world. That really is philosophy. Without the right direction knowledge guided by reason becomes dangerous in its application (technology).

Philosophy, on the other hand, becomes part of God's system because it, Pure Reason (see 'Pure Reason'), is the expression of holistic rationalism. The search for the ultimate reality, causes, and principles underlying being and thinking in the West dates from c.600 B.C. and it marks the beginning of Western philosophy (Gk.= love of wisdom). It combines knowledge with the right attitude to the creations of God. Pure Reason alone is philosophy because it alone is the timeless expression of the mind, the expression of wisdom that all the prophets attained. It is content with the wholeness and beauty of all that has been created by God. As human mind inherently belongs to it, the expression of holistic life is very much essential for the survival of life and its happiness. All other philosophies that we are familiar with at present are smart ideas and time-based expressions of reason which contaminate the mind as they shift human consciousness from its inherent sensibility. Materialistic ideologies are dangerous to the human mind as well as to the system of life because they are based on reason. They send us to the killing fields.

Due to the cumulative thinking over the years, there has evolved the idea that culture is the product of civilization. Really, the objects of culture are the creations of God, and they are our heritage, and not the products of civilization that we inherit from the earlier fellow human occupants. They really belong to the real world 'The Kingdom of God'. Koran: "This present life is like the rich garment with which the earth adorns itself when watered by the rain we send down from the sky. Crops, sustaining man and beast, grow luxuriantly: but, as its tenants begin to think themselves its masters, down comes Our Scourge upon it, by night or in broad day, laying it waste, as though it did not blossom but yesterday. Thus do we make plain Our revelations to thoughtful men." The sensibility for life, and compassion associated with it that the prophets expressed disappear from religions due to the promotion of ignorance under the guidance of reason.

Chuangtse (Taoist sage, China, died about 275 B.C.E): "The more implements to add to their profits that the people have, the greater disorder is there in the state and clan; the more acts of crafty dexterity that the men posses, the more do strange contrivances appear; the more display there is of legislation, the more thieves and robbers there are." "What disturbs the regular method of Heaven comes into collision with the nature of things, prevents the accomplishment of the mysterious (operation of ) Heaven, scatters the herds of animals, makes the birds sing at night, is calamitous to vegetation, and disastrous to all insects- all this owing, I conceive, to the error of governing men." "What is heavenly is internal; what is human is external. The virtue (of man) is in what is Heavenly. If you know the operation of what is Heavenly and what is human, you will have your root in what is Heavenly, and your position in virtue. Do not by the human (doings) extinguish the Heavenly (constitution); do not your (human) purpose extinguish the appointment (of Heaven); do not bury your (proper) fame in (such) a pursuit; carefully guard (the Way) and do not lose it: this is what I call reverting to your True (Nature)."

'Brahadaranyaka Upanishad' (India, the Upanishads were written sometime during the period from 1400 B.C.E. to 800 B.C.E.)

"The worlds have deserted him who knows
the worlds in aught else than the Soul,
Beings have deserted him who knows
beings in aught else than the Soul,
Everything has deserted him who knows
everything in aught else than the Soul."