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Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

1952

The former making sense-pleasure the primary objective of life calls for the abandonment of the worship of God or the practice of spirituality in favour of the deifiction and adulation of a nation a group or even a demogogic individual. [...] Here the verification of the principle will lie in the application of the principle to facts of our spontaneous conviction and so far the validity of the principle is indistinguishable from the principle itself. [...] While the emphasis in faith is on the positive moment of the knowledge of reality the emphasis in philosophy is on the negative moment of the correction of the unreal which is equally nece7 R. Carnap: Philosophy and Logical Syntax pp. [...] We conclude therefore that the contrast between the practical and the theortical moments in ideational life between the fundamental attitude of assent and the theortical act of thinking is as much inadmissible in the domain of philosophy as in the domain of faith. [...] In the course of my long contact and intimate conversations with these direct disciples of the Master the Gurubhais of this sacred monastic Order I never missed the unmistakable ring of faith in and reliance on Mother and always found that all of them firmly and sincerely believed in the divinity of the Holy Mother even as they believed in the divinity of Sri Ramakrishna.
philosophy religion
Pages
44
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120002
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
397-397 Vandanananda view
Letters of Swami Turiyananda
398-399 Turiyananda view
Sacred and Secular
399-404 Vandanananda view
Faith and Knowledge
404-407 Makhanlal Mukherji view
Reminiscences of the Holy Mother
408-412 Kumud Sen view
“Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on”
413-417 Kshitish Chakravarti view
Towards One World
417-425 Batuknath Bhattacharya view
Dhanyashtaka of Shankaracharya
425-428 K. R. Pisharoti view
The Creative Power of the Mind
429-430 Sanat Ray Chaudhury view
Notes and Comments
431-432 Vandanananda view
Reviews and Notices
433-434 Vandanananda view
News and Reports
435-436 Vandanananda view

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