Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

Hence it is a patent fact that the ideal of education determines largely the nature and scope of the system of education and the character conduct and attitudes of the educated. [...] The same spiritual forces that bring about the regeneration of the individual contribute to the moulding of the destiny of the nation. [...] It is on the growth of man as such and his realization of the divinity within that the well-being of the indvidual and the nation depends. [...] He appealed to me as the perfect anti-Puritan hero : the enemy of Sunday religion the destroyer of Sunday gloom the shocker of prudes the breaker of traditions the outrager of conventions the comedian who taught the deepest truths in idiotic jokes and frightful puns. [...] The focussing of consciousness by inwardization creates the real individual—the radiant ego the Pippalada of the Vedas who can tranmute the varieties of experiences into the stuff of the Spirit.