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Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

1933

What is the plan ? The ideal at one end is the Brahman and the ideal at the other end is the Chandala and the whole work is to raise the Chandala up to the Brahman. [...] The history of humanity is the record of this interplay of resistance and rlease ; of the process of disintegration whose end is death in one or other of its many forms and the circumvent.: ing of this process by expedients of integration for the preservation of identity. [...] Yet the mind tured outwards in the exercise of observtion (which is the function of science) serves the purpose of the inner light which lightens the path of the Will ; and the emotions turned outwards in creative expression (which is the funtion of the arts) serve the inspiration to action which sometimes calls sometimes drives and always accompanies the Will on its explorations in lif [...] In placing the source and purpose of creative art beyond the artist and the specific art Nietzsche repeated the ancient vision of the seers of India who in various stories attribute the origintion of the arts to Brahma the Lord of Creation. [...] This is what he said in one of his speeches in America May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus the Ahura Mazda of the Zoroastrians the Buddha of the..adhiste the Jehovah of the Jews the Father is Heaven of the Christians give strength to you. The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist nor a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian.
philosophy religion
Pages
60
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120002
Segment Pages Author Actions
Swami Vivekananda on Caste
105-112 Ashokananda view
A Beacon Light
112-118 Ashokananda view
The Yoga of Art
118-124 James Cousins view
The Sea of Immortality
124-125 Eric Hammond view
Spirituality Combined With Practicality
126-130 A.N. Sen view
The Sikh Prayer
130-136 Teja Singh view
The Influence of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa on Girish Chandra’s Dramas
137-140 Hemendra Das Gupta view
Ishopanishad: its Practical Teachings
140-142 Jagadishwarananda view
Sri Ramakrishna and St. Francis of Assisi
142-144 Devamata view
How To Make A Career in Life
145-147 K. C. Kataria view
Aparokshanubhuti
148-149 Vimuktananda view
Notes and Comments
149-154 Ashokananda view
Reviews and Notices
154-155 Ashokananda view
News and Reports
156-156 Ashokananda view

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