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Sadhana by rabindranath tagore update#
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Most of the essays were given as lectures before Harvard University in 1916 or before.
As the author says in his introduction: "in these papers, it may be hoped, western readers will have an opportunity of coming into touch with the ancient spirit of India as revealed in our sacred texts and manifested in the life of to-day." They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation.A collection of essays on the Hindu/Buddhist view of humankind's place in the universe.
The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. For western scholars the great religious scriptures of India seem to possess merely a retrospective and archælogical interest but to us they are of living importance, and we cannot help thinking that they lose their significance when exhibited in labelled cases-mummied specimens of human thought and aspiration, preserved for all time in the wrappings of erudition. We get to know the real meaning of Christianity by observing its living aspect at the present moment-however different that may be, even in important respects, from the Christianity of earlier periods. All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit-the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history. So in these papers, it may be hoped, western readers will have an opportunity of coming into touch with the ancient spirit of India as revealed in our sacred texts and manifested in the life of to-day. The writer has been brought up in a family where texts of the Upanishads are used in daily worship and he has had before him the example of his father, who lived his long life in the closest communion with God, while not neglecting his duties to the world, or allowing his keen interest in all human affairs to suffer any abatement. Perhaps it is well for me to explain that the subject-matter of the papers published in this book has not been philosophically treated, nor has it been approached from the scholar's point of view.
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