Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

And the glory of man lies in the accomplisment of this almost impossible task.1935 THE SACRED AND THE SECULAR 477 The highest and the most abiding peace is his who fights the fiercest battle. [...] The scavenger the butcher the executioner will have the halo of nobleness as much as the king the monk or the justice. [...] But what is the meaning of this spiritual enjoyment ? It is the enjoment—sometimes of the witness somtimes of the playeh—of the mysterious sport of the unfoldment of the spirit through infinite variety and gradation of what appears as matter. [...] He has tried to show to the best of his ability that the truths of the Srutis are not merely the whims and fancies of the Srutkaras but the only truths that reasoing applied carefully to the thoughts expressed therein may bring to light. [...] "Thou art this present life the sole refuge ; Thou art the life hereafter and the heaven ; Thou art the injunction of the scriptures the Guru full of blesings and the receptacle of infinite bliss.