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Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

1933

The real aim of Sannyasa is For the highest freedom of the self and the good of the world." Without having Sannyasa none can really be a knower of Brahman —this is what the Vedas and the Vedanta proclaim. [...] The Sannyasin verily is born into this world to lay down his life for others to stop the bitter cries of men to wipe the tears of the widow to bring peace to the soul of the bereaved mother to equip the ignorant masses for the struggle for existence to accoplish the secular and spiritual welbeing of all through the diffusion of spiritual teachings and to arouse the sleeping lion of Br [...] The Sannyasins inspire the househoders in all noble causes by embodying in their lives the highest principle of giving up everything for the sake of God and the good of the world and as a return the householders give them a few doles of food. [...] If the Hindus be careful about the progress of their society the Mahomedans look intensely to the interests of the Mahomedan comunity and the Christians think of their own problems separately and so on will that not hamper the progress of the nation as a whole ? For good or evil India has been and is going to remain the motherland of people of diverse creeds faiths and beliefs. [...] She is the study of not just minways but of x the man the self in the ways in which he wields the body : the study of man-as-being impressed of man-as-willing-to-be-impressed of man-as-reacting of man as estimating measuring judging valuing.
philosophy religion
Pages
59
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120002
Segment Pages Author Actions
Swami Vivekananda on Sannyasa
157-161 Ashokananda view
The Task Before us
162-167 Ashokananda view
A Vision of the Self
167-167 Anilbaran Roy view
The Inexpugnable Man
168-173 C. A. F. Davids view
Living Still in the Pole-Star
173-176 Atulananda view
The Yoga of Art
177-181 James Cousins view
What is Religion?
182-187 Vijoyananda view
Are They Contradictory?
187-190 Akhilananda view
The Influence of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa on Girish Chandra’s Dramas
190-194 Hemendra Das Gupta view
The Progress of Ayurveda in Ancient India
195-198 Kaviraj Sen view
Aparokshanubhuti
198-201 Vimuktananda view
Notes and Comments
201-205 Ashokananda view
Reviews and Notices
205-206 Ashokananda view
News and Reports
207-208 Ashokananda view

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