Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

30/ New Book! THE PRINCE OF AYODHYA By D. S. SARMA M. A. A new approach to the Ramayana : The great Epic retold in a remarkably condensed manner for the benefit of the young and the old who have not the time to go through the original volumes. [...] This philosophy ' involved in the peculiar confusions that beset this genration in all aspects of its civilization the prvate as well as the public ' this sense of poinlessness of all striving and feeling in ' a universe without purpose ' is the result of the emphasiing of the purely human and material aspect of civilization by modern science. [...] The terrific shocks of the last two World Wars the brutal and ihuman suppression of minorities by states driving inspiration from the gospel of materiaism the threat to liberty peace and security of the individual to human dignity and human values which comes from the centralization of political and economic power and the develoment of society according to the inhuman demands of [...] The End of man and the quest for Truth having been realized in an integral vision of Reality through the method of spiritual discipline all social planning and institutional development in India were governed by the idea of helping each and every member of the comunity with means suited to his nature to dicover the meaning of existence. [...] The Indian mind however never paid an udue attention to the superficial facts of political existence the misdeeds of kings the wars of greedy rulers and the overthrow of kingdoms and empires.