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The Light of the East January 1942

1942

Some calling themselves Agnostics have even given us the despairing reply : "Men do not know and canaot know ". So what is left for uto do bu-tNto proceed through life as dà- the birds of the air and the beasts of the field making the best of the present hour and trying—for we are neither birds nor beasts—to silence all our inward qtlestioings about the mystery of our origin and the [...] What little place if any the realisation of absolute Truth Goodness Love and Beauty occupies in the nirvana apavar ga or muktiof the Buddhists the Jains the Naiyayikas the Patanjalas and the Samkhyas ! How little even in the Brahman wherein the Samkaras dreamt that men could discover reality undisturbed by movement awareness untroubled by thoughts and satisfaction unspoiled by lon [...] But this much may be said that God in His wonderful goodness and mercy causes to shine before a man's eyes a heavenly light which reveals to him with divine evidence the nature and the power and the goodness and the eternal designs of Him who is the first principle and the last end. [...] Poems are thrown in and finally we come to the roll of honour: the record of past students and professors the living and the dead. [...] But when that wisdom is formulated in such contrdictory statements as " the only Real Exisence is that of the One and only God" and " the only real Love is the love for this Infinity " we begin to wonder whether the arduous path of learning does not remain the safest and the best.
philosophy religion
Pages
17
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120063
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
1-1 Rev. D. Dandoy view
Lift up Your Hearts
2-6 unknown view
Towers of Babel
7-11 unknown view
The Way of Divine Grace
11-13 Francis Kotwani view
Worth Quoting and Worth Remembering
14-14 unknown view
Book Reviews
15-15 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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