All of man's knowledge is of no use unless it help him to progress spiritually. Now, speaking in terms of material values, it does happen that what evil people achieve and pass on to evil people following them brings about progress. If this were not so, the world could never have attained its present, unbelievably, high stage of technological development. It could be maintained that we were born to work for the material progress of mankind up to the ultimate. But in material progress there is no ultimate. Progress, as understood by the average householder, the man of the world, never leads to any ultimate goal. By contrast, spiritual progress, progress towards the Truth known by an enlightened being, does have an ultimate goal. On this road, it is possible to go right to the end and attain complete freedom from the unsatisfactory condition.
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