Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

Bacon calls ' the idol of the marketplace.' His mind is accustomed to travel in the ruts of s. d. and his sole criterion of measuring the values of things is the amount of 'creaturcomforts the subject in question may bring. [...] Just as tactuo-muscular perception is the surest proof of the external world so in the case of the supra-natural world the realm of spirituality the words of a Seer a man of realisation are the most convincing proof. [...] True scriptures are the records of the realisations in the lives of sages dead and gone so the eperiences of the Sadhaka of to-day harmnise quite easily with what is recorded in the scriptures and the Guru the man of realisation in whom more than in any other the truth-seeker has the highest repose comes in to corroborate the eperience of the disciple. [...] As urgent has been the need of renouncing objects to which he has been selfishly attached before equally impera tive is the call now to break all limitations and remove all barriers from the path of the expanding religious consciousness The measure of this expansion of spiritual life must be judged as the measure of the greatness of spiritual attainment. [...] Truly did Bhagavan Sri Ramaktishna sum up in his life the highest and noblest ideals of philosophy and religion and the practical realisation of the precepts he preached enhances the value of his teachings to his direct disciples and the thousands upon thousands of thinking men who have in recent years caught the inspiration 'of his life and quaffed it deep almost to the point of intoxication.