Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India August 1925

The life of a Sadhu and selfishness are wholly contradictory." turned the topic to the national movement of our country and the activities of the Congress and questioned the Swami about it. [...] Another writer impugns the reliability of these conclusions of the psychologists and biometrists on the ground that the results are vitiated by the fact that the convicts in"OCCASIONAL NOTES 347 the prisons are only the failures while the intelligent criminal because he always escapes the police and is so never caught and examined and his type are quite uknown to these investigators. [...] The only essential requisite for the possession of this Divine Life is absolute elimination of egoism the total abolition of the sense of 'I and mine ' the eradication of the feeling of identification with the internal and external instrments the mind and the body. [...] Notwithstanding all these the history of the world is a dismal record of cruel oppression of the weak by the strong of the unprivileged by the privileged. [...] The cry of the 'Black Peril' and the 'Yellovz Peril' is a typical instance of the egotistical and inebriated mentality of the white races which bodes ill for the future peace of the world.