Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

There is not the slightest breath of wind and the silence is so profoundly deep that we seem almost to hear the whispers of the gods and to gaze on6 PRABUDDHA BHARATA the effulgent white form of the Great God Shiva in the innemost depths of meditation. [...] Yet the seen is but a fraction of the unseen and the unseen can be felt only in the silence of the soul. [...] What is the keynote of the music of her life ? The call of the infinite the quest of the Beyond of the Spiritual as the only idea-this has been the eternal burden of her song. [...] From the plains and jungles of life's multiple experience to the calm snow-peaks of unitary conciousness from worldliness to the world beyond—that is the one infinitely long journey along the chequered path of life and death till we reach the Kailash of Self-realisation wherein dwells the Great God Shiva.1\Ehadeva enshrined in the Silence of Eternal Peace and Blessedness ! Om Shantih ! Shantih [...] Hundreds of men and women in the western world have embraced with enthusiasm the doctrines of RamkrishnVivekananda and after the passing away of the illustrious Swami his fellow-monks and disciples have been preaching the Religion Eternal in the West with a zeal which is the admiration of the world.