Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

"It is the name of a human attitude which revived in Europe about 1300 and it signifies the intention of men to concern themselves with the discovery of a good life on this planet by the use of human faculties." Still notwithstanding the renuncition of philosophy a human attitude is a mental attitude and shares to some extent the activities of the deliberative or philosophical function of h [...] Not the pure sciences ; for the qualification of "life" by "good" frays the edges of the revived fouteenth century "human attitude" with numerous wriggling tentacles of quetion from the lineal descendants of the ancient Sophists as to who or what is the new authority-denying authority who or which will decide what "good" is or is not and see to the formulation of a new Amendment to the Hu [...] Some of the critics of the Vedic religion hold that the religion of the Indo-Aryans originated in their superstitious awe with which they looed upon the sun the moon the stars the nature of which though unknown to them cannot be rationally explained in the light of modern scientific rsearches. [...] The hard-earned tribute money of the pilgrims goes to swell the coffers of the temple and is dissipated in the pleasures of the Mohants while famine decimates the land without relief from those coffers. [...] The more the rational mind feels disgusted with the snobbery of the custodians of the churches the more the latter are trying to get back their influence through the colour and the movement of the church services.