People are heavily identified with matter and with material values, with emotional pleasures and mental games, losing the peace of their heart and the health of their bodies.
Devotion [to spiritual values] helps a man destroy such an identification and leads the human soul to such states of beingness in which it will be possible not only to enjoy life in the three personality planes but also to enjoy states of beingness which are full of joy, freedom, and beauty.
The health and energy of the personality vehicles depend on the joy, freedom, and beauty of Higher Spheres.
In devotion a person gradually loses his identification with his animal nature and gains his divine nature. He becomes more human and more divine.
Scientific knowledge and technological progress in this world will never bring in an age of fulfillment, peace, joy, freedom, and beauty unless devotion of the heart toward spiritual values leads the minds of scientists and permeates into our technology. Without devotion to higher values, science will be a giant without eyes.
The children of the world must be trained to love, adore, and worship beauty. Plans must be made to teach youth how to worship beauty in Nature, in man, and in the Universe. Plans must be made to teach people how to devote their lives to the Common Good of humanity and to the higher spiritual values and principles.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.1
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