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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) April 1947

1947

The problem of problems to me was—was the fine structure (perhaps superstructure) of the last one hundred fifty years of which the great poetry of Rabindranath of which the Gandhian way of living of the Mahatma of which the mystical endeavour and high thought of Sree Aruobinda were lasting monuments. [...] I tried to explain to him that the worship of form which had some to the ultimate realisation of the formless had acted in the common man as a barrier to higher realisation and had led to the accumulation of many superstitions and the establishment Of Warring Sects which had made the great founder of Brehm° Dharma ask his followers to concentrate on the formless Brahman direct. [...] Once it had come trying to purge the heart and release the vital and the individual ego into that wider sphere of the spirit with its call of love and mercy and again it had come hearking the soul of India back to the Upanishads to that supreme one-ness devoid of all division and discord releasing us from the bondage of the mind with its narrow limitation (the refuge of superstitions and fana [...] The trees and the flowers are growing theselves ; we find that the rays of the sun the morning breeze and the rains are always coming to help for their growth but these are only necessary instruments for the gradual development of their growth which is the earnest desire of tha.plants and the buds. [...] The more thirsty a man becomes at the side of the wall the more quickly does he tear off the bricks and clods." Here the stream has been copared to the water of life which is the source of Eternal Bliss.
history
Pages
71
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Opium Policy and Opium Consumption 1922-1930
1-6 H.C. Mookerjee view
Tutamundra
7-15 Latica Ghose view
Sufi Exposition of Prayer
16-22 H.C. Paul view
Rationalism of Romain Rolland
23-28 B.S. Mathur view
Food Planning for Bengal-IV
29-36 Parimalkumar Ray view
On the Study of History
37-45 M.C. Samaddar view
Round the World
46-56 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
57-61 unknown view
Ourselves
62-63 unknown view
Official Notifications University of Calcutta Orders by the Vice-Chancellor and Syndicate of the University of Calcutta
64-69 unknown view

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