Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India December 1925

The condensation of the suns and planets the cooling and hardening of the earth into a solid sphere the formation of the earth's surface intmountains valleys rivers seas and oceans and the appearance and disappearance of the different species of"538 PRABUDDHA BHARATA plants and animals—all these changes that are supposed to have taken place are possible only if we recognise a slow process [...] The primitive piture of the ancient Hebrew traditions the ethical doctrines of the prophets the religion of temple and sacrifice the sublime message of Jesus the elaborate theology as prmulgated by St. [...] The sixth ethical virtue is Sraddha or faith in the words of the Guru and the scriptures. I think I need not speak*much to you on the importance of Sraddha in spiritual lifq for it is one of the greatest requisites for the realisation of the Ideal. [...] It gives free activity to reason to science and philosophy to the full satisfaction of the aesthetic being to the health and vigour of the body to the material well-being of man to opulence ease and comfort. [...] The beauty of the life of the Mahatma lies in the fact that he applies these most rigorously to the details of everyday conduct and even to politics in which field all the commandments of God—to judge by the actions of the statesmen and rulers of the civilised world— are not recognised at all and if ever recognised are either"554 PRABUDDHA BHARATA broken without any scruple or blandished forth t