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Mother India. November 25 1950

1950

From this age of gigantic endeavours in the direction of intellectual and social construction we pass by various stages of progress and retrgression through a systematisation of philosophies and a codification of laws through a breaking up of the old synthesis the exaggeration of the asceticpWeal a rigid stratification of the four-fold order and a consequent generarItecline of the culture [...] Then came Shankaracharya the valiant priest of the Brahman the restorer of the ancient monism and the volcanic exponent of the philosophy of the Brahmasutra. [...] But if the Supramental is in some way different from or higher than Satchtananda how is one to correlate the two and how does Self-realisation fit into the Supramental realisation?" Or again it may be asked: "It is possble to understand from the preceding essays that the Nirguna Brahman and the Saguna Brahman the Impersonal and the Personal the One and the Many the Static and the Dyna [...] In the vacant precincts of the sacred Fire In front of the reredos in the mystic rite Facing the dim velamen none can pierce Intones his solemn hymn the mitred priest Invoking their dreadful presence in his breast: Attributing to them the awful Name He chants the syllables of the magic text And summons the unseen communion's act While twixt the incense and the muttered prayer A traveller in his [...] A. The manners the social culture and the restraint in action and expression which are so large a part of national prestige and dignity and make a nation admired like the French loved like the Irish or respected like the higher-class English is based essentially on the sense of form and beauty of what is correct symmetrical well-adjusted fair to the eye and pleasing to the imagination.
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Pages
13
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120134
Segment Pages Author Actions
Dispelled the Mist of Maya
1-i Rishabhchand view
Tibet and India’s Ideal of World Peace
3-3 K.D. Sethna view
Sri Aurobindo the Leader of the Evolution
4-5 K.D. Sethna view
In the Mother’s Light the Conquest of Desire
6-7 Rishabhchand view
Orwell’s Inferno
8-9 K. R. Iyengar view
Poetic Imagery in “Savitri”
10-11 Rajankant mody view
Lights on Life-problems
12-12 K.D. Sethna view

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