The Aryan Path October 1948

We know God Plato tells us 1 more easily on the side of His beauty for there we know Him with the aid of sense and with that aid to begin with He leads us up from the love of the natural loveliness to that of the moral and that of the divine till the Blessed Vision seals the sum. [...] And in these varying moods he is again the Platonist ; for the temper of the Symposium differs in the same way from that of the Phaedo : here the signature of beauty over the whole world and the ladder of beauty to "the heaven above the heavens ; " there the imprisoned soul panting to escape from time. [...] But the high distinction of the pen that wrote the "Letter to Maria Gisborne and " The Boat on the Serchio " and wrote also the cry of Prometheus as the divine love approaches— Life of life thy lips enkindle— is an increasing synthesis in Browing's phrase " of Power and Love in the abstract and Beauty and Good in the concrete. [...] In this double achievement the work of the saints proved more enduring in its results than that of the politicians and the statesmen thereby proving the truth of their teachings that things of the spirit are more important ultimately than things of the material world. [...] The first and the most essential service rendered to popular culture in Maharashtra by the saints was to use the language of the people as the vehicle of the highest thoughts.