The Indo-Asian Culture October 1952

We always speak of this culture and of that culture of ancient and modern culture of Eastern and Western culture of Aryan and Semitic cuture of the culture of a race and of a nation and of a coutry. [...] It is the prejudices and the misunderstandings the conceit and the self-opinionativeness the tendency to aggression and explotation and the mutual fear of being dominated or conquered that militate against the proper understanding of the commoness that is there throughout the world underlying all the cultures in the different countries. [...] All those who are inspired by the high ambition of working in this field have to pool their resources together combine in strength and try to establish higher standards for the search of truth for the conduct of life according to truth for the discernment of truth and beauty in whatever from it may appear in the expression of beauty through all possible media and in the manifestation of the har [...] Even this however is not the highest goal of man and the Quran—in recognition of the progress achieved already and still to be achieved— lays down a higher ideal when it says: "And we prescribed for them therein: the life for life and the eye for the eye "1952 ] THE MUSLIM WAY TO PEACE 135 and the nose for the nose and the ear for the ear and the tooth for the tooth and for wounds retaliatio [...] If it is suggested that I preached the ideal of freedom to my country which is against the law I plead guilty to the charge If it is an offence to preach the ideal of freedom I admit having done it I have adopted the principles of the political philosophy of the West and I have assimilated that to the immortal teaching of Vedantism.