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The Aryan Path September 1950

1950

The function of the state is supposed to be the provision of a decent standard of living for its citizens the elimination of class eploitation and the ensuring of coplete freedom of cultural growth for its racial and religious groups. [...] A purely materialistic interpretation of the function of the state has been atempted by Communism but it has not succeeded and can never suceed in keeping the state entirely neutral " in respect of the culture"19501 THE SECULAR STATE OF INba 389 and religious ideals of the people. [...] In the first half of the verse the pun is on the word sita which means both " white " and " woven into a garland " ; and in the second half the compound vasudevalayam must be split into vasu and devalayam vasu taken to be in the vocative singular being an address to the man of that name. [...] Whether it be attributed to the gems of ancient Indian thought now available to the West in translation to the influence of the Theosophical Movement in our century to the life and teachings of Gandhiji or to whatever else the hope is there in not a few that India may lead the nations out of the wilderness of materialism and mutual antagonism into the Promised Land of peace and unity and aspira [...] The years since the publication of The Decline of the West have witnessed the epression of similar forebodings.
philosophy religion
Pages
55
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120051
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii Sophia Wadia view
“Thus have i Heard”
385-386 Shravaka view
The Secular State of India
387-396 Sophia Wadia view
Shakespeareana
396-396 Sophia Wadia view
The Negro and World Progress
397-398 William Rutherford view
The Maoris of New Zealand
399-402 John Alderson view
Riddle-Poetry in Sanskrit Literature
403-405 H.G. Narahari view
India Will Teach the West
406-409 John Owen view
The Ideal Woman of Future India
410-413 M.S. Rao view
New Books and Old
414-427 Sophia Wadia view
The Indian Darsanas
428-430 Sophia Wadia view
Ends and Sayings
431-432 Sophia Wadia view
Backmatter
i-iv Sophia Wadia view

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