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Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India December 1938

1938

He was born at a time when the Jews—the most persecuted of all the races in the world— were in a state of utter helplessness and struggling hard to preserve the integrity of their ancient faith when Rome spread her dreadful arms all around and her empire extended from the shores of the Atlantic to the banks of the Euphrates and from the snowy peaks of Samarita to the rolling desert of Lybia an [...] In fact the advent of Jesus was but a natural fulfiment of the long cherished dream of the oppressed and the helpless and heralded the dawn of a new spring in the life of the suffering humanity. [...] People were at a loss to pick and choose from amongst them the right course of life with the consequence that many were carried away by the charm and novelty of the doctrines of Bramoism which sought to reconcile to some extent the two dominant religions of the East and the West and rescue the educated young Bengal of the age from the danger of an alien influence. [...] It takes cognizance of the relative reality of the phenomenal world without bringing in an idea of isolation between the world of phenomena and the world of reality.3938 SRI RAMAKRISHNA'S CONTRIBUTION 593 The mystic element in Hinduism and in the teachings of Ramakrishna which are essentially the revival of the same is distinctly inclusive in its acceptance of the world outside. [...] Yet as Viveknanda who represented the practical aspect of the Great Master asserted the difference between the high and the low the Brahmin and the non-Brahmin is only a difference of social functions and abilities and the moment the noBrahmin acquires the abilities and character of a Erahmin he is to be ealted to Brahminhood." This liberlization of caste specially in matters reli
philosophy religion
Pages
62
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120002
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Holy Mother
573-574 Dorothy Kruger view
Christ on the Cross
574-580 Tejasananda view
Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
580-581 Tejasananda view
Art and Morality
582-588 A. C. Bose view
Sri Ramakrishna’s Contribution to the Social and Religious Life of India
589-595 Asoke Bhattacharyya view
Man’s Place in the Cosmos
596-600 D. N. Roy view
The Religion of Non-Religion
600-603 Bhikku Vajrabuddhi view
A Bird’s-Eye View of the Bhagavad-Gita
603-605 D. S. Sarma view
A Scheme of Rural Reconstruction
605-609 Vedantananda view
A Jewish Mystic
610-611 Rabbi G. Braude view
Rationalistic Attitude in Sikh Religion
611-614 Charanjit Bindra view
Sri-Bhashya
614-617 Vireswarananda view
Notes and Comments
617-619 Tejasananda view
Reviews and Notices
619-621 Tejasananda view
News and Reports
621-624 Tejasananda view

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