Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

The nineteenth century saw the standard of living in the West rise from two to five times ; it witnessed the disappearance of the remnants of feudalism and serfdom the growth of demcratic freedom in large parts of Europe an unprecedented multiplication of scientific and technological inventions a brilliant epansion of natural knowledge and spread of literacy among the masses. [...] This brings the author to the paramount problem of humanity at the present time the problem namely of the transformation of human personality the most important part of the trinity of a socicultural system. [...] An analysis of psychoanalytic theory and practice prompts the author to make the following observations : In spite of the incidental factor of sublimation" the theory and practice in question are scientifically fantastic with the exception of the technique of revealing and releasing hidden associations and impulses a technique derived as we shall see from age-old religious and other practices. [...] While the modern techniques try to achieve a false integration by dragging the conscious and the supeconscious to the level of the unconscious and degrade the whole man to the lowest part of his personality the basic principle of the systems of the great masters in contrast is to subjugate and control the unconscious in man by his conscious will and of the conscious socicultural egos by [...] The functions and faculties of the mind the empirical self or the ego the vital activities and the internal organs of undestanding and the senses are all superimpostion on the Pure and.