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Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

1947

So in these civilzations the horse and the sword became the symbols of power and greatness while in the other type of river valley civilization the cow and the ploughshare were the symbols of1947 SOCIETY ON A SPIRITUAL BASIS e69 power and greatness. [...] In all the Smritis and Puranas we find this idea of the emergence maintenance and dissolution of the universe as found in the Vedas and the Upanishads made the basis of the spiritual world-view. [...] Shankara says in his Bhashya on the Brahmasutras : ' We maintain that Ishvara is of the nature of Intelligence the Witness the Immanent Being in all the universe the Controller of actions and their fruits and is the Supreme Self existing in all things. [...] Where is the vaunted exclusive Kshatriya caste anywhere now in India of which the Shrutis speak ? The truth is that even from very early times in India the Varnashrama could not be maintained in the economic political and religious fields because of the growing complexity of society and the inability of the rulers the Kshatriyas and their advisers the Brahmins to fully rise to the occasion a [...] And the non-recognition of the innumerable castes by the State is the first step in the process of clearing the obstacles to the unity of Hindu society.
philosophy religion
Pages
72
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120002
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-22 Yogeshwarananda view
Sri Ramakrishna and Sectarianism
265-267 Premananda view
Society on a Spiritual Basis
268-273 Yogeshwarananda view
Vivekananda on Caste Culture and Socialism
273-275 Gambhirananda view
Swami Ramakrishnananda
276-280 Jagadiswarananda view
World Wars and Western Science
280-285 P.S. Naidu view
Should History be Written at all ?
286-289 V.R. Talasikar view
The Lord Buddha
289-293 Ritajananda view
Trade Regulation in Ancient India
293-297 Haripada Chakravarty view
India the World and Sri Ramakrishna
297-299 Shib Dutt view
Notes and Comments
299-302 Yogeshwarananda view
Reviews and Notices
302-304 Yogeshwarananda view
News and Reports
304-304 Yogeshwarananda view

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