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One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.

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Satish Kumar
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 9
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