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Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

1939

They are in fact the real repositories of the tender graces moral virtues as also of the spiritual forces that go to the formation of the religious life of their children— the future heroes of the land. [...] All the influences which operate against the spread of education amongst boys— the conservatism and prejudice of the people the remoteness of the advatages accruing from education the idifferent quality of the education offered and its cost—all gain added strength in opposing the education of girls." The infinite potentiality that lies hidden in women must no longer be allowed to slumber b [...] But it should not be forgotten that while a synthesis of the type indcated above is a great desideratum for the achievement of the ideal of efficiency to meet the exigencies of the present century the education of the Indian woman woad be a complete failure if it does not begin and end in the exaltation of the national ideals of womanhood as embodied in her own history and heroic literature. [...] In a phrase a mother gives to a man a home in the vastness of the world.' As a matter of fact the future of our individual and collective life depends to a large extent on the moulding that we receive at the hands of our enlightened mothers in the genial atmosphere of the home. [...] The followers of the Din-i-Ilthi tried to establish that the Shariat contained certain particulars which were false and unacceptable to reason for instance the conversations with God Almighty the descent of incorporeal heavenly beings in human forms the Prophet's ascension to heaven in an elemental body the circuit round the Kaba the throwing of stones and the kissing of the Ha jar-il-Aswad
philosophy religion
Pages
61
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120002
Segment Pages Author Actions
Rag Asa of Guru Nanak
157-158 Charanjit Bindra view
Ideal of Education for Indian Women
158-163 Ashokananda view
Sacred Memories of Sri Ramakrishna
163-165 Akhandananda view
Dara Shikuh : a Mystic Prince
166-174 Yusuf Khan view
Liberty in the Modern World
174-181 P.S. Naidu view
Is Conversion Alien to the Spirit of Hinduism
181-184 A.S. Altekar view
Ideals of Swami Vivekananda
184-186 Maurice Gwyer view
From Existence to Super-Existence
186-191 Kalidas Bhattacharya view
Buddhism and the Philosophy of Nagarjuna
192-197 Vimuktananda view
Notes and Comments
197-199 unknown view
Reviews and Notices
199-204 unknown view
News and Reports
204-208 unknown view

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