| WHETHER the
claim made in the introductory chapter that Vedanta can create a conscience for social
obligations is accepted or not, this book will have served its purpose if it gives to
those who read it a clear idea of the philosophy of the Hindus and the way of life flowing
from it. Hinduism has been the subject of study by quite a number of earnest men from
foreign lands. Some, repelled by features of the
social structure still in existence among Hindus, have condemned Hindu philosophy itself
as worthless. Others have found great and rare things in it, but in trying to give
expression to what they admire, they confuse and mystify their readers and
leave them sceptical. |
