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Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India July 1946

1946

The process of the destruction of belief in mere authority increased with the growth of modern civilization based on science and the increasing knowledge of the world which improved means of communications and the printing press brought to all the nations. [...] Nature is the quality of the plant the quality of the animal and the quality of man. [...] Philosophy from this standpoint is not merely the knowledge of a collection of facts but it is the knowledge of values in particular it is the knowledge of the supreme value which is salvation. [...] This general attitude is clearly indcated in the fifteenth verse of the second chapter of the Yoga Sutras which runs as follows : EiRwrmtErfkaonig zir&ia4grea gmaa R.4f: `By reason of the pains of change anxiety and habituation and on account of the contrariety of the Gunas everything is pain for the discriminating.' Here it is to be observed that the characteristics mentioned of pain ch [...] As Sri Aurobindo has beautifully explained the object of these verses is to show the mutual relationship of Vidya that is knowledge of the Noumenal and Avidya or knowledge of the Phenomenal and the necessity of giving a due place to both in any scheme of salvation.
philosophy religion
Pages
49
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120002
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
3-4 Yogeshwarananda view
Conversations with Swami Shivananda
249-252 Yogeshwarananda view
Religion and Politics
252-255 Yogeshwarananda view
I am That I am
255-257 Vivekananda view
The Spirit of Indian Philosophy*
258-268 S.K. Mitra view
Gita Yoga
268-272 Kumar Pal view
Moulānā Rūmi’s Conception of Good and Evil
273-278 H.C. Pal view
The Aestheticism of Soundaryalahari
278-281 P.Sama Rao view
The Appeal of the Famine-Stricken
281-282 P.K. Banerji view
Notes and Comments
282-285 Yogeshwarananda view
Reviews and Notices
285-287 Yogeshwarananda view
News and Reports
288-288 Yogeshwarananda view

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