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Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

1939

But his other qualities of head and heart—his love for the poor and the sick his spirit of self-sacrifice and of service to mitigate the sufferings of the56 PRABUDDHA BHARATA February helpless and above all his brilliance as a poet and litterateur—served to overshadow his moral foibles and soon earned for him a place of distinction in the circle of the intelligentsia of the time. [...] In the previous chapters although the metaphysical question of the nature of God was occasionally brought in yet it was not made the central principle from which the ethical principles were dduced; it was rather introduced by way of illustrating some of the points raised in the discussion of the ethical problem. [...] The distinction between Para and Apara Prakriti is shown and God is represented as the Reality upon which the whole universe is strung like rows of pearls on a string." But it is not before the eighth chapter that the real ascent to the peak begins for it is in this chapter that the cosmic significance of karma is revealed to us as also the supra-cosmic source of it in the Akshara Brahman. [...] The field comprises in addition to what is physical the whole of our sensuous intellectual and emotional nature as will appear from the following description of it : "The great elements egoism intellect as also the unmanfested the ten senses and the one (mind) and the five objects of the senses; desire hatred pleasure pain the aggregate intelligence fortitude — the Kihetra has been [...] From a study of the spread of the disease in the plains as well as in the hills extending over a period of seven years Professor Mehta is convinced that the foci of infection lie in the hills and hilly tracts where rusts oversummer in the uredo-stage.
philosophy religion
Pages
62
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120002
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
53-53 Ashokananda view
A Maker of Modern Bengal
54-58 Ashokananda view
Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
59-60 Ashokananda view
The Cosmic Significance of Karma in the Bhagavad-Gita
60-71 S. K. Maitra view
My Visit to India
71-76 A. H. Bullek view
The Idea of Purusartha
76-79 M. Himyanna view
Hindu Marriage and Divorce
79-85 R. G. Bueway view
Recollections of Swami Vivekananda
85-86 Isabel Maiigesson view
Modern Panjabi Literature
86-90 Teja Singh view
Buddhism and the Philosophy of Nagarjuna
90-95 Vimuktananda view
Notes and Comments
95-98 Ashokananda view
Reviews and Notices
98-101 Ashokananda view
News and Reports
101-104 Ashokananda view

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