The Aryan Path January 1949

As Eddington summrizes the century of research “We have chased the solid substance from the continuous liquid to the atom from the atom to the electron and there we have lost it.” What the electron is doing inside the atom is summarized in the following line “Something unknown is doing we don't know what.” Somewhere in the quantum of light the corpucular and the nocorpuscular meet an [...] What to us Indians do this civilisation and this culture of India represent ? Taking the history of India in relation to the things of the mind and the spirit what are the essential ideas or ideals that have been energising this country through the millennia ? The first specific contribution of India to the world is what I have always called fearlessness abhaya in the language of the Upanishad [...] The country of the Buddha whose philosophy did not demand the existence of a Supreme Being as we understand it the philosophy of the Vedanta which does not postulate the existence of a Personal God as many religions do the philosophy of the devotee which culminated in the complete submission of the self to a Supreme embodied in a personal form—all these varieties of thought however contradic [...] What are the ten Avataras ? The first is of the world of Matysa occupying the universe when even before the birth of the reptiles the fishes were the first evidence of life. [...] And then we cone to the period of the amphibia then to that of the half-man to that of the dwarf man then to the period of the primitive the uncontrolled the impulsive man.