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Great men have been compared to Janus, the Roman god. On the one hand, they face back towards the past, and sum up in their personality the accumulated culture of the ages. Yet their gaze is turned towards the promise of the days to come, and they already see in their hearts the vision of a richer, fuller life. In them, the past with all its strife and endeavour and achievement, its success and its failure, seeks a full and Read More …
By Sivanath Sastri We must bear in mind that modern theism, such as we are preaching in India today, is not merely a philosophical school like the esoteric monotheism of the Upanishads, or the system of Socrates and Plato in Greece, or of the Stoical philosophers of ancient Rome. Not is modern Theistic Church a body for mere theological discussion like the many conflicting schools of darshanas of medieval India, or the theological schools of medieval Christianity. Theism in modern Read More …
Rammohun Roy was born in West Bengal 246 years ago. We have read in our school history books that Rammohun he was the harbinger of Modern India and was instrumental in abolishing the Suttee system. Also it was he who uplifted the Hindu religion from its rituals and dogmas. But then why is Rammohun relevant today? Rammohun was the first Indian who was a liberal at heart. Rammohun founded the Brahma Sabha a place for the worship of the One Read More …
By C. H. Hunter The problem of world peace has two main features, the problem of fear and the problem of freedom. The main cause of the world’s unrest is fear; – how should we go about banishing fear and what will we substitute for it? There are two weapons that banish fear; Brotherhood and Freedom. We banish fear by believing in and practicing brotherhood, by having confidence in the good or higher part that we must appeal. This higher Read More …
By Sivanath Sastri Continued from last issue… The altered view of life necessarily leads the modern Indian theist into fields of social reform. If society is to be a tabernacle of the Supreme, we must necessarily strive to make it a fit tabernacle for Him. An old story about Lakshmi, the goddess of fortune, repeated by Bengali women on Lakshmi’s day, goes on to say that, there was a poor Brahmin, so poor that he would not get his ordinary Read More …
On this auspicious first day of Baishakh 1425, we are sadly reminded of the deplorable and ghastly condition of our society. All around we find a serious degradation of the human species. Humans have forgotten the essential humane qualities like compassion, tolerance and love for one’s fellow beings. Rabindranath Tagore and Shri Aurobindo, each in his own way, believed that human civilization one day would evolve into a supreme state when divine qualities would be an integral part of humanity. Read More …
By Sivanath Sastri Continued from last issue… We should earnestly seek, therefore, to establish the pure spiritual worship of the Supreme Being in our domestic and social lives. All theists should make it is a rule in their houses to commence the day with a short ritual of Divine Service and to mark all the important events of their domestic and social lives by the observance of religious rituals representing the worship of the Supreme Being. But do not rituals Read More …
Dwarakanath Ganguly’s 175th birth anniversary passed away quietly on 20th April, this year. A crusader for the plight of the downtrodden – Dwarakanath has almost faded away from the history of 19th century Indian Renaissance. Dwarakanath Ganguly born on 20th April, 1844 in a Kulin Brahmin family at a village named “Magurkhanda” in Bikrampur district, which is now part of Bangladesh. His father was Krishnadhan and mother Udaytara. His father employed at a Government office at Faridpur. Dwarakanath started his Read More …
Every problem is open to a spiritual solution. The process begins by recognizing what kind of awareness we are working from, because for every challenge in life there are three levels of awareness. Contracted Awareness:- This is the level of problems, obstacles, and struggle, fear contributes to a sense of confusion and conflict, we keep doing more of what did not work in the first place. If we remain at this level, we will be frustrated and exhausted. Expanded Awareness:- Read More …
By Sivanath Sastri I take advantage of this opportunity to lay before you something like a definite idea of the things that our theism is aiming at. The strength of our union and co-operation greatly depends upon the definiteness of our aims and aspirations. In a liberal religion like ours we are bound to allow very great liberty amongst its members in the matter of philosophical and theological views and doctrines. Some may be monistic in their sympathies, others dualistic; Read More …