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Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India February 1938

1938

While the shining lights of the country are busy increasing the number of colleges and spending huge sums for the mainteance of efficiency in the universities the dumb masses who form the bulk of the Indian population and have not even the wherewithal to make the two ends meet have been thrown in the cold shade of neglect with the result that as Dr. [...] The ideas " says Swami Vivekananda "must be taught in the language of the people ; at the same time Sanskrit education must go on along with it because the very sound of Sanskrit words gives a prestige and a power and a strength to the race. The only way to bring about the levelling of castes is to appropriate the culture the education which is the strength of the higher castes. [...] The New India as Swami Viveknanda has truly prophesied shall rise not from palaces or mansions but from the peasant's cottage grasping the plough out of the huts of the fisherman the cobbler and the sweeper from the grocer's shop frpm beside the oven of the fritter-seller from the factory from the marts and markets. [...] The Encyclopwdia of Religion and Ethics tells us 'that the most essential element in the psychology of culture is that which relates to the intellect and the will with the accompanying contrast between the life of culture and that of activity.' This definition neglects copletely the affective aspect of human life which is the sole basis of culture and exalts intellect which plays only a subor [...] The constructive leaders on the other hand are those who realizing the shortcomings of the present attempt to raise the level of the group by a new scale of values which is a continuation of the old.
philosophy religion
Pages
61
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120002
Segment Pages Author Actions
Thanksgiving
53-53 Taraknath Das view
The Problem of Mass Education in India
54-60 Tejasananda view
Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
60-62 Tejasananda view
A PsychoLogical Orientation to the Concept of Culture
62-70 P. S. Naidu view
The Behaviour of a Jivanmukta
70-73 Surendra Bhattacharya view
The Civilization of China
73-76 Tan Yun-Shan view
Religious Categories as Universal Expressions of Creative Personality
76-85 Benoy Sarkar view
The Philosophy of Bergson
85-92 Anil Sarkar view
Sri-Bhashya
93-96 Vireswarananda view
Notes and Comments
96-98 Tejasananda view
Reviews and Notices
98-100 Tejasananda view
News and Reports
100-104 Tejasananda view

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