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Religion and Modern India

1923

Hence the love of truth ' purity and freedom the sympathy for and charity to men and animals the care for the poor and the homeless the blind and the cripple the widows and the orphans the relief of the depressed the ulifting of the down-trodden the resistance to evils in society the tending of the sick the22 RELIGION AND MODERN INDIA. [...] We read of the political struggles between the Aryans and the non-Aryans as also among the various ruling races and the members of the same'royal family in the Vedic literature in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and Al the Puranas. [...] It is through the religious consciousness again that the seers of India attained the vision of the immortality of the soul and of the Providence of God which form the foundation of the moral life and the social structure of the Hindus. [...] 43 in the providence of God again has led the Hindu thinkers to a conception of the eternal and immutable law of Karma which with the concomitant laws of rebirth and transmigration keeps the majesty of the moral order intact in the midst of apparent discords and contraditions of life the sufferings of the justoand the righteous and the ascendancy of the wicked and the vicious. [...] The secret of the national prosperity of the Hindus was their living faith in the Moral Government of the universe and their practical observance in daily life of the distinction between the spirit and the body recognising the supremacy of the former from which necessarily followed as a logical consequence the superiority of the Eternal over the temporal of the Life beyond over the life on ea
philosophy religion
Pages
403
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.147151
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-xii Satis Roy view
Introduction
xiii-xxxvi N.G. Chandavarkar view
I. Religion and Modern Civilisation
1-35 Satis Roy view
II. Religion and Nation-Building
36-67 Satis Roy view
III. Religion and the World
68-103 Satis Roy view
IV. Religion and Social Life
104-143 Satis Roy view
V. Spiritual Life and its Realisation
144-187 Satis Roy view
VI. Culture of the Soul
188-229 Satis Roy view
VII. Rishis and Yogis of Modern India
230-274 Satis Roy view
VIII. Prospect of Universal Theism in India
275-314 Satis Roy view
IX. India and the Christian Mission
315-334 Satis Roy view
X. Religion and Education
335-365 Satis Roy view
Backmatter
i-ii Satis Roy view

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