Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India August 1938

Thus it is clear that to deny the validity of intuition as a criterion of truth is to fly directly in the face of the pregnant utterances of the Sruti as also of the great seers of India who have always been held in respect fcr the wealth of their spiritual experiences. [...] They appear as it were to leap and say "I exist " "I am leaping." The body is as it were the cooking vessel; the mind and the intellect are the water; the objects of the senses are as it were the lentils rice and the vegetables. [...] With the latter he vindicates the reality of the world; to allow its falseness would involve the unreality of its cause.' Brahman and Prakriti are both causes and Maya is not 'illusion' but power.' The appearance of individuality in the successions of birth and death is due to the internal organ (antahkarana) costituted out of the three strands by the upddhis or determining conditions of th [...] The Western empirical sciences are the offspring of the former and the entire body of Hindu philosophy is the result of the latter. [...] The purpose of the commemoration is to make the American people Constittion-conscious: to create a quickening of interest in the Constitution and its essetial relation to the history of the nation.