Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

Conversations of Swami Sivananda The Western Question (IV) —By the Editor Introduction to the Study of the Upanishads (I)—By Swami Nikhilananda On Sri Ramakrishna—By Jawaharlal Nehru JUST OUT 1 FOURTH EDITION THE EAST AND THE WEST By SWAMI VIVEKANANDA (Translated from the original Bengali) A Comparative Study of the Eastern and Western Ideals and Modes of Life brilliantly set forth. [...] The.fe of everyone of the children of the ster is a living and ideal example of ha I and austere sadhana. [...] Consider for example the Satavahanas of the Andhra country who lead from towards the close of the 1st century B. C. a fresh spiritual and political revival front the South when the North ay in ruins under the blows of foreiners Ii e the 7t'avanas the Sakas and the Pahlav Again these Yavanas Sakas and Pahtavas themselves enter Aryan society later on as fallen Kshatriyas (vide Manusamhita) [...] A foreign question in the real sense of the term faced India in an acute form in recorded history when the Achaemenian power and shortly after the Greeks extended their operations across the Itindukush to the plains of the Indus and even beyond. [...] We find on the one hand sonic evidence of mimesis of the dominant political power for example of the Greek in particular in material externals like iconography coinage political and administrative terminology and arrangements but usually the response takes the form of a narrow reactionism in face of the political and cultural danger.