“Spirituality is the key to a healthy and crime-free society. In this materialistic world where everyone is running to accumulate wealth by hook or crook, real satisfaction is attained only by honest earnings and hard work. The ever increasing incidents of social and moral aberrations need to be checked,” said Pawan Kumar Bansal, Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Water Resources, while presiding over a function organised by the Mohali unit of the Prajapita Brahma Kumaris Ishwariya Viswa Vidyalaya on Sunday night to celebrate Shivratri.

Bansal emphasised the need to spread peace and strengthen moral values through programmes of universal brotherhood and religious harmony.

He said, “Through such congregations, ignorance among people disappears and they come more close to the civilized world and this is precisely what is required in today’s society where degradation is witnessed in moral values”.

B K Premlata, head of Mohali and Ropar Rajyoga centres, said, “The entire society is dominated by the forces of Kalayug, which would die on its own and we are heading toward Satyug. The pollution in our minds will disappear through constant practice of yoga and meditation.”