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Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

1939

The cosmic thought forces of the race compressed themselves at it were into the single organic life of that noble personality who stood before his countrymen with all the grace and vigour of Indian cuture and set himself to the Herculean task of rebuilding the nation on the basis of a synthetic ideal bearing in it the living strands of the cultural forces of the East and the West. [...] living men rich and poor in town and field; he became one with their lives; the great Book of Life revealed to him what all the books in the libraries could not have done... the tragic face of the present day the cry of the people of India and of the world for and the heroic duty of the new Oedipus whose task it was to deliver Thebes from the talons of the Sphinx or to perish with Thebes." [...] The ideal at the one end is the Brahmans and the ideal at the other end is the Chandala and the whole work is to raise the Chatiftspla up to the Brahmana." His Conception of Equality It is indeed time for us to take stock of the assets and liabilities of our society for a healthy readjustment. [...] The history of India is still a living witness to what the Buddhist monks of the past did in respect of the conservation of her culture and the spread of her spiritual ideals in the world. [...] Conition then instead of being a unique relation is nothing but an instance of the simplest and most universal of all relations".4 Thus in the perception of a tree there is the act of mind called perceiving the object which is the peceived tree and the togetherness or compresence which connects the art of mind and the object.
philosophy religion
Pages
51
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120002
Segment Pages Author Actions
Peace
573-573 John Moffitt view
Legacy of Swami Vivekananda
574-582 Ashokananda view
Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
582-583 Ashokananda view
Greatness of Asoka’s Conquest
583-588 Radhakumud Mookerjee view
Religion and the Modern Man
588-592 Akhilananda view
Alexander’s Theory of Knowledge
592-601 Satish Chatterjee view
Sri Ramakrishna’s Contribution to the Christian World
601-603 Allen Claxton view
The Nature of Religious Experience
604-610 S.N.L. Shrivastava view
Knowledge and Reality
610-615 Dineshchandra Shastri view
Advaita Ashrama Mayavati
615-616 Ashokananda view

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