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Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

1918

We read in the lives of saints and prphets of a state of realisation which illustrates the attainment of this unity beyOnd duality of a religious mood in which all the apparent duality is obliterted a state of emotion so levelling and unfying that all the values of life are egulfed in the vision of unity; the hand of the Lord is seen present in life and equally so in the direst de [...] Naturally the thinker the priest became the highest class in the Indian society and not the man of the sword. [...] The tension though toned for the time did not satisfy the social wants which were among the causes —the claim of the king-race to stand first in the scale of caste and the popular in-. [...] In their reaction against the privileged priesthood they swept off almost every bit of the old ritual of the Vedas subordinated the gods of the Vedas to the position of servants to their own human saints and declared the Creator and Supreme Ruler" as an invention of priestcraftand supestition. [...] And elsewhere we are told that the childbirth was painless -that the ox and the ass kneeled down to worship Christ in the manger that immediately after his birth Jesus told his mother that he was the son of God and that the radiation of light from the manger-cradle illumined the plate till the bystanders were forced to shade their eyes from the heavenly Splendour.
philosophy religion
Pages
34
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120002
Segment Pages Author Actions
Conversations and Dialogues of Swami Vivekananda
265-267 unknown view
Occasional Notes
267-269 unknown view
Historical Evolution of India
269-272 unknown view
Epistles of Swami Vivekananda
272-273 unknown view
The Story of Jesus Birth and Childhood
273-277 unknown view
With the Swamis in America
277-281 Brahmacharin view
Vivekachudamani
281-284 unknown view
True Sacrifice
284-285 Madhavananda view
Correspondence
285-287 unknown view
Ramkrishna Mission Flood Relief Work in North Bengal
287-288 Saradananda view
News and Notes
288-288 unknown view

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