Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India September 1927

Just as the changes of the year's seasons do not depend on anybody's likes or dislikes in the same way the changes of human society are independent of the zeal of the reformers and the obstinacy of the orthodox. [...] The present opposition to and distrust of the oncoming changes in the status of women are really due to a failure to find out the link between the old and the coming new. [...] And here is the contribution of the mind to the constitution of the visible universe. [...] The most modern theory of biology regarding individual life is what is called the colony of consciousness theory that every cell of the physical body has a life of its own and our individuality is the sum total of the lives of the constituting cells. [...] What appears as such is only the aggregate of cell lives and the dissolution of these cells the going out of the tiny flames means the death of man.