Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

As on the one hand the practice of 'rapasya intensifies altruistic feeelings in the devotee and actuate him to work so also the pursuit of work for the sake of others carries the worker to the last fruition of Tapa.syd namely the purification of the heart and leads him thus to the realistion of the supreme Atman. [...] The staple of his inspiration lay in that help which is ac corded to the weak by the strong the worldly and the ease-loving by the spiitual the ignorant by the knowing. [...] It was the politics of the States the groupings of nations which took place on the expiry of the Middle Ages and the inauguration of the modern era thought the influence of the Renaissance and the Reformation movement and the long and bloody wars that came in its train that came to mean a step which however prductive of national solidarity and freedom of faith in Europe was but the precursor [...] Here we speak guardedly lest we should happen to speak of the religious culture of the Middle Ages because to some writers that period of European hitory at least in that particular part of it which attended to the highest religion's' consciousness is but a mere blank an accident in the annals of the full-blooded Europe of the modern era full of the horrid Romish tyranny of the church and t [...] The era of transvaluation of all values in the homes the courts the councils the cabinet-chambers every nook and crevice of human society has come— and all to be accomplished in the light of that true viSibri of the one whiff: India witnessed to and made into a Nwer for good everywhere.