Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

The Infinite alone is happiness." We hear the distant echo of the truth in the writings of Emerson : "It is only the finite that has wrought and suffered ; the Infinite lies stretched in smiling repose." The Upanishads din into our ears the glory of the Infinite and teach us to give up all narrow grooves of life. [...] We hear so often about the conflict between the sacred and the secular between the life of the spirit and that of the world. [...] The social thinkers of Asia also have fallen a victim to the fallacious socilogical methods and messages of the modern West to which the postulate of an alleged distinction between the Orient and the Occident is the first principle of science. [...] The majority of modern writings even of those which are directly based on the original sources devoted as they are to the object of understanding the theory of the oneness of the Vedanta or the Nirvana of Buddhism have created the impression as if the sages of India lived only on one thought namely as"1935 SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO VEDIC CULTURE 433 to how to escape the series of births and pa [...] Logically therefore we should expect the four items the Samhita of a Veda the Brahmana of the Samhita the Aranyaka of the Brahmana and the Upanisad of the Aranyaka to go together and constitute one complex.