Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

The Nyaya philosophy of Gautama fflnd the Vaisheshika system of Kanada in their epic quest of Truth reduced the inumerable existences to sixteen and seven elementary substances (tattvas) respectively; whereas the great Kapila and Patanjali—the fathers respectively of the Sankhya and the Yoga philsophies—while postulating the plurality of souls generalised the variety of exitents into t [...] When works are done in a spirit of worship of the Divine the personality of man becomes completely transfigured and the works themselves serve in the end to open the hidden spring of spiritual energy and instal the finite on the throne of the Infinite. [...] The words of the Master beautifully reconciled the ideal of Bhakti with the knowledge of the Vedanta : The ideal of Vedanta lived by the recluse outside the pale of society can be practised even from hearth and home and applied to all our daily schemes of life. [...] Another result of such coming tgether of the various religions of the world must be the modification of the spirit of finality and authority that reigns supreme in most of the religions including the blatant religion of science. [...] But my only hope lies in the slow establishment of the religion of eduction not the education that is controlled by the ministers of education but the education that is fostered by the as-yefew prophets of a better life—a life of the spirit.