Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

Who sees knoledge and performance of action as one he sees." In the twelfth chapter also the Lord after dealing extensively with the worship of the Personal God and the Impersonal has clearly said that the worship of the Personal God is easier and that He Himself saves His devotees. [...] And what is the root cause of the innmerable troubles of the modern world ? It is this—that man glorifies matter more than spirit ; man loves the pleasure of the senses more than that of the Atman. [...] Like the magnetic property of the Iron group and the radiating property of the radio-active group of elements Life may be a property of the element Carbon that plays such an important role in the make-up of all organic tissues. [...]. The revlation by modern physics of the void within the atom is more disturbing than the revelation by astronomy of the immense void of interstellar space." Then the yet more surprising fact about these tiny constituents of the physical universe is that they refuse to remain in the category of matter. [...] In the recent centenary meeting of the British Association Sir Oliver asserted before the august assembly of scientists that in the near future science was sure to prove the existence of Life and Mind in the interstellar space.