Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

`In the Vedas and in the Rilnuiyana in the Puranas and in the Mahtibhdrata both in the beginning and in the end and also in the middle the Lord has everywhere been sung.' There is no other goal but God for He alone is true and eternal everything else is false and transient. [...] The chief of these are a keen sense of discrimination between the real and the unreal ; the absence of a desire for enjoyment of this world or the world to follow; the acquisition of certain powers like control of the mind control of the senses the capacity of withdraing the mind from external objects the power of physical endurance; supreme faith in one's own power combined with receptivene [...] But sense-perception is relative and the idea contained in it is really not the idea of the archetype but is based on the reltion between the percepient and the occasional cause. [...] 3)362 PRABUDDHA BHARATA September and the ignorant follow in the track of the high and the learned.' Hence it is up to the rich the high and the literate in our society to see that they are praying both individually and co3 ziTtf.f9ea ittFflq*ait I aRSOITilt it (III. [...] Similarly as a result of contact with the chill of devotion the ocean of Existence-Knowedge-Bliss freezes and takes on various shapes.' Innumerable indeed are the devotees who through that illustration of the Master have attained peace of mind being convinced of the possibility of harmony of these two opposing views of the forms and formlessness of God.