Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

Jhat we do not feel inclined to seek Recall the words of the Master about the bags of rice in the rice godowns Outside a quantity of popped rice is left on a winnowing fan drawn by its smell rats come and eat their fill of it and do not come to know of the big bags of rice—though they are just there. [...] The rise of the West synchronized with the decline of the East. [...] Hence the enormous success of the nationaistic and communistic idolatries which deny any meaning to the universe as a whole but insist on the importance and significance of certain arbitrarily selected parts of the whole—the deified nation the divine class. [...] Escaping the brawling noise of every day they can through the silence hear the murmuring of truth and in silence release it to pass into the turbulence of men and women to sweeten it and to keep them from perishing. [...] The Hindu Yogic systems are eminently fitted for the purpose of leading the modern world of bustle and becoming of the purposelessness of intellectual life and self-centred megalomania to the silence of intuition and being.