The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c3.63

c3.63

4. Human life is never governed by religion which is everywhere a brilliant superstition consisting in the vain effort to understand the nature of God, but by the desire and power to live and flourish by responding to the thousand and one stimuli of the universe and utilizing the innumerable world-forces (*viśwa-śakti*). This desire and power is the basis of civilization, culture, *Kultur*, or *dharma*, and is spiritual in its very nature, if anything spiritual there be. So-called materialism has never existed in any epoch of civilization or in any phase of *dharma*.