Modern Review May 1936

The spiritual mind of India regarded life as a manifestation of the self: the community was the body of the creator Brahma the people was a life body of Brahman in the samastal the collectivity; it was the collective Narayana as the individual was Brahman in the tryashti. [...] the separate sliva the individual Narayana; the king was the living representative of the Divine and the other orders of the community the natural powers of the collective self prakritayah. [...] The main function of the political sovereige the king and council and the other ruling members of the body politic was therefore td1erve and assist the maintenance of the sound law of life of the society; the sovereign was the guardian and administrator of the Dharma. [...] Each group was a co-partner with the others in the powers and duties of the communal existence; each executed its own laws and rules administered within its own proper limits but joined with the others in the discussion and the regulation of matters of a mutual or common interest and was represented in some way and to the degree of its importance in the general assemblies of the kingdom or empir [...] The life of the society was regarded not so much as an aim in itself in spite of the necessary specialization of parts of its system but in all parts and the whole as a great framework and training ground for the education of the human mind and soul and its development through the natural to the spiritual.