Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

In the course of conversation referring to the incdent of Jesus Christ's raising of the dead (Lazarus) the Swami said : 'You see this afternoon I was thinking of the incident recorded in the Bible depicting the supenatural powers of Jesus such as the raising of the dead. [...] and his illustrious disciples and also the Jain Tirthankaras in the ideal lives and teachings of the divine incarnations and immortal heroes and heroines of the epics in the popular and powerful inspiration of the Puranas in the logical and subtle philosophical spirit of the Darshanas in the purity renun-1951 SRI RAMAKRISHNA THE SPIRITUAL FORCE OF MODERN INDIA 117 ciation and devotional ard [...] His wholsouled devotion coupled with his indefatigable pursuit of divine manifestations not in one form only but in the many diverse forms spoken of in the scriptures of the world teaches us that both the personal and the impersonal aspects of the Divinity must be realized and accepted as true if one is to be fully possessed of the whole of the highest Truth. [...] In him we have the best meeting-ground of the East and the West of the ancient and the modern of religion and science. [...] The contemporary activities of the people in the West who are affiliated with the Churches and the present activities of the Hindus and Mohammedans in India do not justify the idea that mere acceptance of an organization or a sect changes the human personality.