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Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

1933

In man the water takes the shape of man ; in the buffalo the shape of a buffalo; and in the fish the shape of the fish; but in each of these vessels is the same water of the sea of God. [...] V Now what will be the ideal of future humanity ? What is the goal to which mankind in their march extening over a period of millions of years in the past (and who knows how many millions of millions of years it is to be continued in the future ?) are going ? The ideal of the collective life is indicated by the ideal of the individual life. [...] What is that ? I need tell no one of you who has observed no one of you who has read history no one of you who has a human heart that that resource is religion—the personal experience of religion in the soul—the conscious purposeful earnest opening of the soul's doors to the incoming spirit of God the power of God the peace of God the love of God the life of God. [...] And yet it is no disparagement to any of these to say that as an agency for bringing hope to the despairing cofort to the sad courage to the falteing succour to the tempted strength to the weak patience in trial light in bereavement calmness in the presence of death and above all moral and spiritual regeneration to men dead in indifference and sin none of them have a tithe of the po [...] "Thou alone art fit to be the refuge Thou alone art the adorable ; Thou art the one cause of the universe and Thou hast all forms; Thou alone art the creator preserver and destroyer of the universe ; Thou alone art the Supreme Immovable and Immutable." There is another beautiful hymn the Pardpujd in which we have a new note."It talks of the impossibility of offering worship to the Supreme.
philosophy religion
Pages
61
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120002
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Essence of Religion
1-3 Vlvekananda view
Swami Subodhananda
4-5 Ashokananda view
The March of Humanity
6-10 Ashokananda view
Religion as Experience
11-17 J.T. Sunderland view
Sanskrit Hymns and Hindu Religious Experience
18-24 Vireswarananda view
A Work Among the Depressed Classes
24-29 A.R. Poduval view
Sri Ramakrishna and St. Francis of Assisi
29-32 Devamata view
Hindu Society Past and Present—I
32-37 Pramatha Bose view
Light from the East
37-39 Melvin Vincent view
The Future of Socialism in India
39-41 S.N. Sanyal view
Aparokshanubhuti
41-44 Vlmuktananda view
Notes and Comments
44-48 Ashokananda view
Reviews and Notices
48-51 Ashokananda view
News and Reports
51-52 Ashokananda view

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