Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

For in the first instance the greatest share of the profits swelled the pockets of the middle men and the big merchants in the cities. [...] The noblest sermon that the Buddha uttered is a song in praise of the simplhearted ministries and loving offices of the household among the members of the family the relatives the friends the guests. [...] That goal is the realization of the essential unity of substance pervading the cretion and the non-essential diversity in it due to multiplicity of names and * Speech delivered at the Vivekananda Society Colombo on 19 September 1943 under the joint auspices of the Ramakrishna Mission and the Vivekananda Society Colombo on the occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Chicago Parliament o [...]. Very few arc left who still think of the deep significance of the words of the Vedic seer of old 'Walk ye together on the path of life and speak ye all with voice unanimous and may your minds all know the self-same Truth.' Everywhere the alluring catchword of progress is sounded and the world echoes with the slogan of practicality and social justice; but unfortunately the very foundations o [...] The way of self-inquiry self-purifiction and self-mastery and of gaining deeper insight will certainly never be the way of the masses but it might be the way of the leaders of leaders showing them the way to a better state and understanding of things and helping them in solving their own most pressing problems by the insight they have gained into the nature of life.