Film: Guide
Year of release: 1965
Spoken by: Raju Guide (as Swami) (Dev Anand)
Spoken to: Foreign reporter (Unknown)
Dialogue writer: Vijay Anand
One of the reasons all Godmen find legitimacy is coverage in foreign press. During the long climax of Guide, Raju (who is being considered a holy man by the villagers) is deep into his 12 day long fast to bring rain. People are thronging the fast site from all over the country. So much so that it has caught the fancy of the foreign press as well. So there is this Foreign correspondent who asks the Swami a couple of questions
The first one is translated by her assistant and Raju answers in Hindi.
Her second question is
"In your opinion what is the place of religion in the modern scientific world?"
To her complete surprise, Raju answers in English,
"I think all sciences will end in religion".
She is now totally taken in by this holy man. Not because he is spiritually exalted, but because he can manifest that exaltation in English!
But what a great line. In the last few years, we have been watching religion hitting back at science with a vengeance. To have foreseen that half a century ago! Goldie Saab was a sagacious man.
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