Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

the *wonderful life of the Swamiji who was not only a seer and the greatest standard-bearer of Vedantism in the East and the West but the very impersonation of all that is great and noble in life."—A. [...] That is why the Lord says in the Gita What is the good of your knowing the numberless things of the world? [...] The destruction that man sees all around him has also to be attributed to the agency of the same Creator since the premises underlying the conception of the Creator prcludes the possibility of his having any rival to thwart him. [...] In the Vedic religion we find the gods of nature becoming subordinate to Indra„ the god of heaven for he is the wielder of the mighty thunderbolt. [...] Proceeding on the assumption that what is in the macrocosm is in the microcosm and vice versa the Vedic gods like Agni Vayu and others became the presiding deities of the various organs of the human body and higher than all was the atman the Supreme Being in the Human body.