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Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India September 1938

1938

The Sruti has therefore sounded the tocsin of alarm at the very beginning and declared that this discrimination between the real and the unreal the renunciation of desire for the enjoyment of the fruits of action here and hereafter the possession of sixfold wealth (i.e. [...] A rustic rushed in and inquired of the accountant as to the number of fishes in the pond of the fruits in the orchard and the cost thereof and so on. [...] Behind this statement there is the priciple that the satisfaction of the lower pleasures attaches the individual to the organs of satisfaction and thus degrades hiin whereas the satisfaction of the high& pleasures such as are derived from true religious activity and true love sets the individual free from lower desires.' This is ultimately the most searching test of the fulfilment of beaut [...] Perhaps the most serious flaw in the Socratic application of art to the inflencing of psychological conditions (a matter brought to the perfetion of degradation in modern avertizing) was the restriction of its service in a socalled Republic" to "young rulers" ; for the divisions between them and the people and also the women of Greece would tend to cancel the "fellowship and harmony" [...] The best reserve of a country's gold is in the vaults Of the banks and in the houses of the citizens.
philosophy religion
Pages
60
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120002
Segment Pages Author Actions
Swami Vivekananda
417-417 Dorothy Kruger view
Pilgrimage to the unknown
418-423 Tejasananda view
Sacred Memories of Sri Ramakrishna
423-426 Akhandananda view
The Fulfilment of Beauty
426-434 J. H. Cousins view
Economic Tit-Bits
434-438 Shib Dutt view
Psychology in the Gita
438-441 Drupad Desai view
Hindu Astronomy and Astrology
441-446 V. V. Sastri view
The Story of the Indian King and the Corpse
447-451 H. Zimmer view
Reconciliation of Contradictories in the Life and Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna
451-454 P. S. Naidu view
The Philosophy of Self-Surrender
454-456 Sridhar Mazumdar view
Sri-Bhashya
457-461 Vireswarananda view
Notes and Comments
461-463 Tejasananda view
Reviews and Notices
464-464 Tejasananda view
News and Reports
465-467 Tejasananda view
Ramakrishna Mission Flood Relief Work
468-468 Tejasananda view

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