Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India April 1927

In the meantime we shall take up the publication of the conversations and reminiscences of Holy Mother the first instalment of which was pulished in our last December issue.—EDITOR." FIRE-BATH OF REASON By THE EDITOR Some at least of our readers we presume have been folloing the monthly publication of the Essence of Vedanta the translation Of the Veddntasdra an excellent primer of the [...] The first of the four Sadhanas the discrimination of the Real and the unreal is only another form of "universal scepticism." It requires that we should question the reality of the phenomenal world and reject whatever is found unreal. [...] And the fourth the desire for freedom concentrates the scattered forces of the mind and makes them flow in one impetuous current to the search and discovery of the Real. [...] In the course of his lecture on the Vedanta at Lahore one of the loftiest of his utterances he declared with head uplifted and nostrils dilated "I am one of the proudest men living." It was not pride of the usual worthless variety but the noble pride of the consciousness of a great heritage a revulsion of feeling against the false humility that had brought his country and his people so low. [...] The chhatras are narrowly orthodox and do not do anything for non-Brahmins the sick and women ; and the authorities of the city hospitals do not go about the town in search of the sick and the helpless as do the workers of the Home.