The Visva-Bharati Quarterly August 1943 - October 1943

As seekers of God they renounced the worldly riches and the pleasures of the flesh and entered the seclusion and peace of the monasteries to meditate and pray. [...] These ecstatic songs overflowed with the Unity of God His Omnipresence exhortation for the abnegation of the material world admonition for the sins committed and last but not least the longing of the human soul to be immersed in the original "Ocean of Eternal Bliss". [...] Schopenhauer himself has treated genius or objectivity of aspiration and desire in detail in the Fourth Book entitled The Assertion and Denial of the Will"3 ; only he imparts a want of clearness to the subject by speaking of a denial of the will in general instead of confining his remarks to a denial of the subjectively interested selfish will. [...] 190 The higher man rises above the lower forms of the will to live the larger also will the sphere of his interests grow the more will he live with and in others the more intense will his own life be and the greater his enjoyment of it. [...] But the most far-reaching of all is the truth on which the whole system is based namely that all that exists belongs to the one Nature to the one essence of God which finds expression in the vast multiplicity of the things of this world and which is nevertheless one spiritual unity.