| Books By Rajaji Doctrine And
Way Of Life |
|
 |
| Books By Rajaji |
|
|
|
ANCIENT YET MODERN |
|
|
| This curious
moral enclave in sinful lives touches the heart, and makes a great pity of what is doubt
less just a matter for sheer reprobation. The
Upanishads are quite large in number, but about twelve may be called the principal
Upanishads and they are now available in collected book form with fairly accurate
translations. It would be a mistake to expect ancient works to be like the books of our
own time. The principal Upanishads were written thousands of year’s ago-scholars are
not certain about the exact time. In India as in the rest of the world, the environment
and the lives and habits of men were all very different then from what they are today. We
may not forget or overlook this difference in attempting to understand and interpret the
Upanishads or for that matter any book of ancient times. To interpret and judge things
written more than three thousand years ago in the light of today and bring to bear on them
modern doubts, discoveries and controversies would be utterly stupid. We should re member
that what is now doubted or disputed was not then a subject of question or controversy. |
[ Back ] [ Up ] [ Next ] |
|
|
|
