Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

Even in the matter of reading books how much is a man hampered ! In the likes and dislikes of books one is tied down by the common tendencies of the time or the common opinion of a society. [...] The falling of an apple turned the mind of Newton iward and from the depth of his being he came out with the explanation why the apple falls and the world got to know the Law of Gravitation. [...] So at the back of the Eastern system of education was the idea to develop the power of concentration and minute processes were discovered as to how the power of the concentrtion of mind could be developed. [...] He began to think and think of the meaning and significance of the unverse and the result of his success is that he has become the Light of Life for the one-fifth of humanity for thirteen hundred years. [...] The first is pleasant in the beginning but the end is sorrow while the latter is painful in the begiing but blissful in the end.