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Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India July 1938

1938

The Aryans blonged to a very ancient stock of the human race and lived for a long period with the forefathers of the Greek the Roman the German the English the Dutch the Scandinavian the Spanish the French the Russian and the Bulgarian nations. [...] IV So far as the socio-religious life of the Aryans is concerned the readers would do well to remember that the cultures prevalent in the Rig-Vedic and Upanshadic ages were almost identical in spirit and outlook the difference being only in the growing complexity in the texture of the cultural life of the people in the latter period. [...] The bright and healthy picture of the economic life of ancient India presents a refreshing contrast to the moribund and atro_phiecl condition of the present day: The pristine glow of enthusiasm that characterized the sturdy peasantry of India is now lost in the hectic flush of a diseased life and chill penury has frozen to stagnation the healthy flow of nobler aspirations of the people today in t [...] The rise of Jainism and Buddhism the growth of eleven republics and their systems of administration art and archtecture the socio-economic condition of the people of the time as well as the invasion of India by Alexander the Great and its results —all have received adequate treatment in this chapter at the hands of the author. [...] Since the days of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 when the late Swami Vivekananda during the sessions of the Parliament of Religions inaugurated by the unceasing efforts of the late Lloyd Jenkins Jones startled the Western world by his message of Hinduism the Western people have taken active interest in the Hindu methods self-culture—physical psychical and spiritual—generally known as Yoga.
philosophy religion
Pages
63
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120002
Segment Pages Author Actions
Thoughts on the Present Discontent
313-314 E.E. Speight view
A Peep Into Hindu Civilization
314-321 Tejasananda view
Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
321-322 Tejasananda view
A Rejoinder to the Charges Against Hindu Mysticism
322-331 Girindranarayan Mallik view
India in World Culture and World Politics
331-334 Taraknath Das view
The Law of Forgiveness
334-338 Vividishananda view
Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism
338-344 Anil Sarkar view
The Story of Abu Baker Shibli
344-346 Aga Ibrahim view
The Synthetic Method of the Upanishads
347-348 T.M.P. Mahadevan view
Significance of Sri Ramakrishna’s Life and Message
348-352 Sheo Lal view
Sri-Bihasitya
352-355 Vireswarananda view
Notes and Comments
355-357 Tejasananda view
Reviews and Notices
358-359 Tejasananda view
News and Reports
359-364 Tejasananda view

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