Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

30New Book! THE PRINCE OF AYODHYA By D. S. SARMA M. A. A new approach to the Ramayana : The great Epic retold in a remarkably condensed manner for the benefit of the young and the old who have not The time to go through the original volumes. [...] All societies are governed and held together by definite outlooks furnished by the wisdom of individuals at the top who have the detached vision to realize the pupose of social evolution and the destiny of the individual. [...] Such men formulate and exemplify from time to time according to the needs of understanding and of the sitation the social creed and the meaning of social dynamics. [...] But have we really come nearer to what we have been seeking ? Have we ever before seen the enactment of human misery on a scale comparable to what the age of reason has witnessed ? What is the use of conquering diseases of the body and prolonging life if they mean the emergence of increasing psy chic troul;es and the extension of a pontless lonesome existence or the vicious round of desire-to-s [...] The insufficency of such a creed to meet the deeper needs of man his long:ng for the vast and the infinite (bh u man) is apparent in the intellectual temper of the recent times which is antrationalistic and anti-realistic taking real and rational in their current senses.