Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

Swami Vivekananda thought long ago over it and his plan for the regeneration of India may briefly be summarized as follows : 1. A hundred thousand men and women fired with the zeal of holiness fortified with eternal faith in the Lord and nerved to lion's courage by their sympathy for the poor and the fallen and the down-trodden will go over the length and breadth of the land preacing the [...] The traditional teaching of the Indian scriptures is to sacrifice the individual for the family the family for the comunity the community for the country 580 PRABUDDHA BHARATA December and the whole world for the spirit. [...] By the widening of the smaller accoplishment we immeasurably extend the possibilities of the larger." The civic consciousness and the spirit is the thing essential more than anything else in the work of national regeneration for modern India." SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI BY MISS PEGGY DAVIDSON Giovanni Bernadone known to the world as St. [...] The guiding principles of the Poor Clares were the same as those of the Franciscans though the chief work of the nuns was the care and education of poor girls. [...] As he always considered the Pope the visible representative of Christ on this earth he went to Rome to ask his permission to travel to the lands of the Mohammedans and Tartars"1935 SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI 587 to convert them to Christianity and he received the Pope's sanction.