Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

For do they not know the sages of the world who lived the true life the -value and significance of the Nicene and Athanagan creeds or for the matter of that the hair-splitting dicussio4s of the schohtsti4 the Naiyaildts918 OCCASIONAL NOTES 77. nd Mimansakas of the world for'the realation of the true soul of man? [...] The Absolute is there no doubt but it is the relative the temporal and the local that very often triumph over the universal and fasten uon the passing phases of these the many diverging foci of looking at the Absolute its agreement of the total whole. [...] Religion to the SemitiHebrew conception was of a naively realistic kind and hence the paramountcy of the Khalifas of faith with sword in one hand and the Koran in the other while in the other phase of it the Hebrew mind always in the look-out for a sign and a wonder—a Messiah coining withGod-given gifts in. [...] The breadth of his spiritual culture and the depth of his consciousness of the Absolute so far surpasses the acquisitions of many another in other epochs of the history of India and not only that in the history of the world in fact that humanity is well-nigh astounded to find that he stands so far above the well-known catgories of his thought and judgment. [...] The light of sadhatta that was once lit on the bank of the Holy Ganges in the temple of Dakshineswar has now to be turned not only towards the homes of the Indians themselves but towards the west and the east the north and the south everywhere so that all will bathe and partake of their share in the full floods of this superb.