Sadhana: The Realisation of Life - Softcover

Tagore, Rabindranath

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9387488063 ISBN 13: 9789387488069

Publisher: MJP Publishers, 2019

Synopsis

Perhaps it is well for me to explain that the subject-matter ofthe papers published in this book has not been philosophicallytreated, nor has it been approached from the scholar’s point ofview. The writer has been brought up in a family where texts ofthe Upanishads are used in daily worship; and he has had beforehim the example of his father, who lived his long life in theclosest communion with God, while not neglecting his dutiesto the world, or allowing his keen interest in all human affairsto suffer any abatement. So in these papers, it may be hoped,western readers will have an opportunity of coming into touchwith the ancient spirit of India as revealed in our sacred textsand manifested in the life of to-day.All the great utterances of man have to be judged not bythe letter but by the spirit—the spirit which unfolds itself withthe growth of life in history. We get to know the real meaningof Christianity by observing its living aspect at the presentmoment—however different that may be, even in important respects,from the Christianity of earlier periods.For western scholars the great religious scriptures of Indiaseem to possess merely a retrospective and archælogicalinterest; but to us they are of living importance, and we cannothelp thinking that they lose their significance when exhibitedin labelled cases—mummied specimens of human thought andaspiration, preserved for all time in the wrappings of erudition.

Edition details

• Publisher: MJP Publishers
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9387488063
• ISBN 13: 9789387488069
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124