Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

The Allister used to say 'If the grace"420 PRABUDDHA BITARATA November of the perfect guru can be had the egoism of the disciple is destroyed after a little struggle.' And if the guru is not an expert the worldly bondage of the disciple is not broken and lie is not liberated. [...] I am the subject of all Traditional Science I ant the Renewer of the Vedantic TradOm and I am the knower of the Veda.---Gita The conviction has become widespread today among all serious students of culture that no problem in society science or life is fully understood until its grounds in the metaphyscal nature of things are discovered. [...] There is a measure of truth in the former statement if we understand the term nation in the narrow political sense which the doctrine of the nation-state gave rise to in the nineteenth-century Europe and which remaied so sacrosanct until recent years as the ultimate aim of a civilized community. [...] In the face of all these records of the policy of divide and rule and its inevitable aftermath it is rather a little inaccurate for any one to claim that Britain achieved the political unity of India which had eluded the Indian people in the past. [...] Religion is therefore the highest work the world has; because man has unconsciously felt this he has clung through all the ages to the idea of religion.' This is the promise of Vedanta and the key to the understanding of the real truth of religion.