Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

"Here and there he came forth with a message to the society but his gurubhdis and disciples always think of him as the monk of monks the man of Realisation the Awakener of souls the complement of Sri Ramakrishna and the bearer of the Message of his Master which is the Message of India and Sanatan Dharma to herself and to the rest of the world." IV But how is it that this important element in [...] We s all cease to love the things of the wo ld in and for themselves but shall la¢ve them on the contrary in and for the (I tman : not for the love of wife Will the wife be dear to me but for love of the &man; not for love of childr n will the children be dear to me but or love of the dtman. [...] Though the doctrine of the Upanshads not satisfying the religious needs of the masses and making God into an abstraction—sublime indeed but yet always an abstraction—reduces itself to an esoteric teaching and the religion of a small circle of the initiated nevetheless through its demonstration of the existence of the dtman or of a substantial reality of a Ding an sich (thing in itself [...] It is needful to achieve the miracle of going through our life filled with benevolence in the midst of the evil-minded unarmed in the midst of the armed shorn of every trace of desire in the midst of the covetous. [...] The Indians have not learnt nor wished to renounce their faith in God and the Soul and they have preferred as their gospel the Bhagavad-Gitd in which the immanence and the transcendence of God appear blended and the duty of action is harmonised with the idea of indifference to the fruits of action."1st LESSONS OF RELIGIOUS INDIA TO EUROPE 71 The West is much too logical to be able ever to conce