Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

The present ailment of the world reminds us of the story of Narada and Sanatkumara as told in the Chhdndogya Upanishad and the solution too is found there. [...] Says he `Sir I have read the Rigveda the Yajurveda the Samaveda the Atharvveda which is the fourth histories and mythologies which are the fifth gramar the modes of satisfying the manes 1944 THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE 403 mathematics the science of natural phenomena economics logic politics the ancillary Vedic literature physics the science of war astronomy the science of snake [...] 4. The purpose of life is to achieve identification with the eternal aspect of one's nature—thus realizing what is called in the East liberation and 'enlightenment and in the West the unitive knowledge of God. [...] How we forget that the scripture was made for man not man for the scripture ! The knowledge of the Vedas says Shri Krishna pertains to the realm of the three gunas but the Goal of the spiritual aspirant is to go beyond this realm. [...] Inactvity is a moral and a spiritual failure inasmuch as it means non-participation in and non-furtherance of the cosmic plan of the Creatqr ; action motived by personal gain is foredoomed to failure and frustration for the world-process is designed to work out the cosmic plan and purpose of the Divine.