All the religions from ancient times have said that a man or a woman has to cleanse their mind through religious activity, with righteous thinking.

The aim of every religion was to establish balance in every way, to make way for the ascent of the seeker. The second birth, walihood, selfhood, Buddha's state, Jaini state, Gnostic, or Atmasakshatkar, are all names for self-realisation.

It was all right in the olden days, when people wanted to be good and to ascend. They obeyed and tried to do whatever was asked for by the saints, prophets or incarnations.

In India, in the sixteenth century, we had many great saints who were poets. Even in the twelfth century, we had some very great writers about spiritual life. The main theme of all these saints was that we must cleanse ourselves for our ascent. We must purify ourselves. So the greatest thing we have to achieve is our second birth, our self-realisation, the salvation.