Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

Our tradition ascribes the highest value to the Self of man and has made the supreme judgment that the Self of man is also the Self of the Universe. [...] This is the work which tends towards sameness towards unity witout destroying variety.' The law of which the Swami speaks in the above paragraph is the spiritual law of seldetermination which is the essential mark of a civilization and to which we have referred earlier in the beginning of this article. [...] The attainment of this stage is helped by the constant practice of maitri karuna mudita and upeksha—the active spread of happiness and the active removal of pain the active help of those engaged in doing good and the active oppostion of evil without any feeling of ill-will towards the evil-doer. [...] It is all very good it may be said to speak of the true knowledge supposed to be enshrined in the Vedas but is it not a fact that the Vedas speak among other equally reprehensible things of the four castes as having sprung from the four parts of the body of the Creator and is not the Shudra relegated to the lowliest part of that body ? The answer is an emphatic no. [...] If the brahmana literally came out of the mouth of the Virat from which mouth did he come because all mouths the mouth of the saint and of the sinner of the cow and of the dog.