Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India June 1925

The questions of free and compulsory education female education the cultivation of the vernaculars the study of Sanskrit the importance of Brahmacharya adult marriage widow remarriage the elevation of the depressed classes the caste-system idolatry vegetariaism the rearing of healthy children in short all things that concern a man from his cradle to the grave were dealt 'with by hi [...] The biographer quoted before in the course of his estimate of the achievements of the Samaj lays down the following--If the Arya Samaj has any hobby—it is this that its religion is the best and that it is its duty to convert the whole world to its own religion. [...] The biographer himself has raised the question whether a member seeking admission into the Arya Samaj is to subscribe only to the ten principles or to all the teachings of Swami Dayananda and he answers it thus—"Whatever the intention of the framers of the principles might have been the fact is that from the very first the Arya Samaj * The Italics are ours. [...] In the works of Swami Vivekananda and Rabindra Nath Tagore we are witness to what lengths of ration-"264 PRABUDDHA BHARATA alisation may be forced the consequences of that yearing in man which is -identical with the mechanism that binds the wolf to the pack the sheep to the flock and to the dog makes the company of his master like walking with God in the cool of the evening. [...] He attributes the conception of unity which characterises the aspirations of the Hindu soul to the fact that the first Aryan invaders of India dwelt "surounded by the vast life of nature fed and clothed by her in the closest and most constant intercourse with her varying aspects." Thus they became instinctively enamoured of the idea of man's unity with the cosmos which led not only to the for