Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India April 1938

Where is the scope for the play of any debasing thoughts in the sanctuary of a person's heart when with the growth and development of his soul his whole being is saturated with the thought of the Divine or when his quest of truth is crowned with a vision of the Eternal Reality that stands as a Substratum behind the scintillating variety of diverse faiths and forms in this world of ours ? For To [...] Sri Ramakrishna stands at the confluence of the two mighty thought-strms of the East and the West with a me: sage of universal peace and bringing back from the womb of the forgotten past the living truths of the Eternal Vedas holds before the world a life of wonderful synthesis of all creeds and religions. [...] Thus very soon the home of the Hindus evolves into a larger aggrgate known as (3) Madhyadesa of which the limits are defined to be the Himlayas in the north the Vindhyas in the south Prayaga in the east and Vinasana in the west (the region where the Saraswati disappears in the sands). [...] Siva implies Absolute Good above the ditinctions of good and evil ought and ought not the ideal and the actual while Sakti is manifested in the relatvity of good and evil the ideal and the actual and movement from the one to the other. [...] It is realized that unity that changeless Being is the self180 PRABUDDHA BHARATA April multiplicity is the self-manifestation of unity that Changeless Being is the self of change and action and changes and activities are the expression of changless Being that self-luminosity is the soul of the states and processes of cosciousness and the latter are the special forms in which the former ex