Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

But what a lot of sciences he knew ! Almost everything from tie language of birds the reading of men's nature and character from the shape of their bodies to the Vedas and Vedanta the Puranas and the Tantras was known to him as surely as a person holds an amalaka fruit in the palm of his hand. [...] The fight bprogress means increasing modification of the tween the devas and the asuras the gods and ego-structure permitting a clearer reflection the Titans recorded in old literature are the of Truth in the purified intellect. [...] This is because the structure of the by the shastra are the asuras ; in the same way universe and the status of human life are other their opposites the illuminations of the dithan the asuras affirm. [...] He asserts since the sixteenth century there has been a that the natural order of things existing in movement towards the secularization of time and space is the only order and that the Western culture which has increased in iego-structure impelled by the natural impultensity during the last two centuries until this es of raga and dvesha (love and hate) is the civilization has ceased to be [...] `May Hari the ruler of the three worlds worshipped by the Saivites as Siva by the Vedantins as Brahma by the Buddhists as Buddha by the Naiyayikas as the Demiurge by the jainas as the Liberated by the Mimamsakas as Law.