Man does not live by bread alone. His physical needs and mundane desires may be very important but the physical comforts are not the only things essential for his purposeful survival. His social and spiritual needs are equally important. It is not an exaggeration to say that his social and spiritual needs are in some ways more important than anything else.
The modern trend of suicide, drug abuse, alcoholism, and depression among the well-to-do and wealthy people of many societies substantiates the point that social and spiritual needs of man are more vital than the material ones. The affluent societies of modern times have proved how miserable the life of those people who have all imaginable physical comforts and worldly resources at their disposal can be, when it is empty of the richness of the social and spiritual aspects of life.
Society devoid of social and spiritual purposefulness could very easily turn vegetative in its nature. No society with a little bit of wisdom would like to choose to live like a cabbage. When man ignores his spiritual and social make-up and development he can be even worse than a cabbage. He then really falls to the lowest level of creature.
Man through the ages has tried to solve his problems of social and spiritual wants by accepting and following a belief system which could guide him to meet his non-material needs and save him from being vegetative in his nature. Belief is an innate part of humans.
Every one of us has some form of beliefs. Even in our day-to-day life we base many of our acts and actions on a certain belief. How often every one of us utters the phrase “I believe” in order to assure himself and also others of the opinions and views he holds about one thing or another.
The modern trend of suicide, drug abuse, alcoholism, and depression among the well-to-do and wealthy people of many societies substantiates the point that social and spiritual needs of man are more vital than the material ones. The affluent societies of modern times have proved how miserable the life of those people who have all imaginable physical comforts and worldly resources at their disposal can be, when it is empty of the richness of the social and spiritual aspects of life.
Society devoid of social and spiritual purposefulness could very easily turn vegetative in its nature. No society with a little bit of wisdom would like to choose to live like a cabbage. When man ignores his spiritual and social make-up and development he can be even worse than a cabbage. He then really falls to the lowest level of creature.
Man through the ages has tried to solve his problems of social and spiritual wants by accepting and following a belief system which could guide him to meet his non-material needs and save him from being vegetative in his nature. Belief is an innate part of humans.
Every one of us has some form of beliefs. Even in our day-to-day life we base many of our acts and actions on a certain belief. How often every one of us utters the phrase “I believe” in order to assure himself and also others of the opinions and views he holds about one thing or another.