Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India February 1946

It was the same year that the Swami in the name of Sri Ramakrishna laid the foundation-stone of the Ashrama on the newly acquired grounds Within a period of three years the construe tion of the chapel and the quarters for the monks was complete. [...] The submissive type in the sub-human biological level is represented by the elephanL the pow the horse the goat and the sheep —in short the herbivorous as opposed to the carnivorous which are by their very nature; aggressive and dominant The peoples of India and China may be said to represent this submissive or gentler type on the human level. [...] The positive dominating type is represented in religion by the followers of the doctrine of Vedanta which asserts the identity of the Empirical Self with the Universal Self the identity of the Jivatman with the Paramatman or Brahman. [...] But in the very coplexity of her abundance a central theme of austere simplicity as exemplified in the life of the Brahmin and of renunciation as pratised by the all-renouncing monk has been evolved and treasured—a keynote to guide the human mind and heart through the maze of experience and suffering which constitute the life of the world. [...] She is the very type of the true Indian woman for all the Indian ideals of a perfected woman have grown out of that one life of Sita ; and hexe she stands these thousands of years commanding the worship of every man woman and child throughout the length and breath of the land of Aryavarta.