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Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

1944

We are to start with struck with awe at the grandeur of conception and the wide sweep of imagination expressed in the simplest of language : Fire is His head the sun and moon His eyes ; the quarters His ears ; the Vedas His voice ; the wind His breath ;. the universe His heart ; and the earth His feet. [...] As the sun the eye of all is not contaminated by the external ocular ipurities so being beyond the world the one Atman that resides in all is not touched by the miseries of the world (Kat. [...] He bade each monk `to sacrifice his own life for others to alleviate the misery of millions rending the air with their cries to wipe away the tears from the eyes of the widoW to console the heart of the bereaved mother to provide the ignorant and the depressed masses with the ways and means for struggle for existence and make them stand on their own feet to preach broadcast the teachings of t [...] It is the duty of businessmen to anticipate the demand of the people produce things in advance and arrange to bring them to the very door of the would-be consumers. [...] Like the castes of the Hindu society the classes of the capitalist society tend to be fixed and rigid as a rule - and the few exceptions where a man can rise from the Log Cabin or the Tan Yard to the White House or from the coal pits to the Cabnet do not alter the general picture of the situation.
philosophy religion
Pages
29
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120002
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Claim of the Upanishads
423-428 Gambhirananda view
India’s Contribution to World Civilization
428-430 Lakshman Sarup view
India’s Awakener: The Master and the Magazine
430-435 Nihal Singh view
Incentives in a Planned Economy
435-441 Hirendra Dey view
Sublimation of Instinct
441-444 Sharvananda view
The Passing of a Civilization
444-446 L. N. Ajwani view

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