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Renascent India
K. S. Venkataramani
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Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Politikwissenschaft
Beschreibung
THE Great War has plunged the world in the throes of a rebirth. There exists now throughout the East and West a definite unrest very intense and widespread. No forward movement has ever been so fully charged as now with the longing to realize some of the ideals of the race, as old as Buddha himself. This unrest preludes a basic change of values. It is not anarchical in purpose, unless human blindness makes it so. It is a leavening ferment. It is creative. It is the restlessness and activity of a growing spirit which seeks to widen its consciousness and emerge into a higher and fuller mode of life. It is a renascent force fecund with a creative and motherly joy seeking for the peace and beauty of life in a new Religion and Philosophy of permanent values. The cream of twenty-five centuries of human endeavour waits to be gathered of this renascent churn.
Science has been the changing factor of the century, the disturber of the molecules, precipitating a higher, more varied and perfect crystalline form. The rapid mastery which Science has given man over externals has left his inner nature more lonely and disconsolate, more divorced from Mother Earth and Her sweetness and realities. But material progress is only the scaffolding for the raising of a beautiful structure for the soul. So we are now yearning for a higher unity achieved not through political integration nor by a new kind of social co-operation nor out of a common cult of beauty, art and literature, but of a philosophic enquiry into the Oneness of all Life and the abiding verities of its love and sacredness in all its forms and relationship. The quest is not merely for a safe anchorage but for steady progress in all conditions of the storm-tossed sea of life. The search is for a base of action on impersonal grounds, for a Code of Sanatana Dharma drawn from permanent standards of value, which will help us to realize peacefully even in daily life both social happiness and Infinite Bliss.
The world is now surfeit of action for action's own sake, weary of mere strenuousness which refines and improves nobody. It is indeed strenuous action for over one hundred years that has upset the social order specially on its economic side. Therefore the economic causes induced by the marvelous progress of Science are the chief driving forces of this fresh unsettlement. But these causes by themselves borrow their motives of action from a higher evolutionary urge in man, from deep, spiritual longings. The undying love of peace and harmony is there well-nourished in the very midst of conflict and is its own authentic proof of its ever-lasting value. For Peace is the very higher objective of War.
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Indian Philosophy, Indian history, Indian Political History, Indian Political Science