The Aryan Path July 1939

In opposition to this stands the verdict of the late Mahdev Govind Ranade by common cousent the most profound thinker of nineteenth-century India ; he held that the success of Shivaji was made possible by the pioneer work of the great saint-poets of Maharashtra from Mukundraj and Dnyaneshwar to Tukaram and Ramdas and that but for the inspiration these poets suplied.and the mentality they [...] The protection of the good and the destruction of the wicked "—these two planks of a sound philosophy have been handed down from the Bhagwat Geeta and the Marathi saint-poets followed that precept. [...] As with the material resources so with the intellectual resources everything in the country is as far as is humanly possible being directed to the one end of securing the absolute mastery of the State and through this in theory the happiness of individual citizens. [...] I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. [...] I remain on the humbler plain of the Prelude in which we find the greatest of all apostrophes ever raised to the brighness of the Promise that is written in characters of beauty across the earth.