Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

II The learned author has presented at the outset a very realistic picture of the spiritual decadence of the Modern West and indicated in bold and clet.r terms the growing spirit of revolt against the tedency of the age to compel the energies of man to move along the ruts other than the spiritual. [...] Light is of five kinds —the light of a lamp the light of other fires the light of the moon the light of the sun and the light of the sun and the moon in the same locus. [...] The characteristics of the Sthitaprayia as given in the second chapter or of the Bhaktinnin given in the twelfth chapter or of the Triguntitita as depicted in the fourteenth chapter are all characteristics of the free man. [...] "Raise the self by the Self and do not let the self become depressed ; for verily is the Self the friend of the self and the self the enemy of the self" (VI. [...] But the beauty of the teaching of the Bhagavad-Gita is that this coercion is felt only when the individual due to ignorance or the perversity of the will* pursues a course which is contrary to the moral order of the universe.