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The Web of Indian Life

1904

And to the student of history she is the continuity of Aryan thought and civilisation through the ages giving unity and meaning to the lives of races and centuries as she passes through them carrying the message of the past ever into the future a word of immense promise an assurance of unassailable certainty. [...] The constant dropping of the veil in the presence of a man or before a senior is the token of a real retirement the sacrment of actual seclusion within which all the voices of the world lose distinctness and individuality becoming but faint echoes of that which alone can call the soul and compel the eager feet. [...] For is it not written in the book of the law that " the house which is cursed by woman perishes utterly as if destroyed by a sacrifice for the death of an enemy" ?- strange and graphic old phrase pregnant of woe ! It is evident then that the laws of Manu are rather the unconscious expression of the spirit of the people than a declaration of the ideals towards which they strive. [...] With46 THE WEB OF INDIAN LIFE regard to the last point indeed their idea is that man should precede woman maintaining the tradition of the path-breaker in the jungle; and one of the most touching incidentsin the national epic of heroic love is Sita's request to go first along the forest paths in order to sweep the thorns from her husband's path with the end of her veil. [...] And the point to be reached in practice is that where the whole world is made beautiful by the presence in it of the beloved where the hungry are fed and the needy relieved out of a joyful recognition that they wear a common humanity with his ; and where above all the sense of unrest and dissatisfaction is gone for ever in the overflowing fulness of a love that asks no return except the po
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Pages
304
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.145817
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Frontmatter
i-iii Nivedita Margaret E. view
Chapter I the Setting of the Warp
1-18 Nivedita Margaret E. view
Chapter II the Eastern Mother
19-31 Nivedita Margaret E. view
Chapter III of the Hindu Woman as Wife
32-48 Nivedita Margaret E. view
Chapter IV Love Strong as Death
49-61 Nivedita Margaret E. view
Chapter V the Place of Woman in the National Life
62-83 Nivedita Margaret E. view
Chapter VI the Immediate Problems of the Oriental Woman
84-103 Nivedita Margaret E. view
Chapter VII the Indian Sagas
104-126 Nivedita Margaret E. view
Chapter VIII Noblesse Oblige: a Study of Indian Caste
127-148 Nivedita Margaret E. view
Chapter IX the Synthesis of Indian Thought
149-181 Nivedita Margaret E. view
Chapter X the Oriental Experience
182-192 Nivedita Margaret E. view
Chapter XI the Wheel of Birth and Death
193-206 Nivedita Margaret E. view
Chapter XII the Story of the Great God: Siva or Mahadev
207-221 Nivedita Margaret E. view
Chapter XIII the Gospel of the Blessed One
222-239 Nivedita Margaret E. view
Chapter XIV Islam in India
240-257 Nivedita Margaret E. view
Chapter XV an Indian Pilgrimage
258-275 Nivedita Margaret E. view
Chapter XVI on the Loom of Time
276-301 Nivedita Margaret E. view

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