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There is a wide-spread belief that the tradition of spiritual life which was developed within the Upanishadic circles with its insistence upon slef-conquest, contemplation, and direct God-vision, the three essential elements of Upanishadic Mysticism, is a mere relic of the past, having no points of contact with modern life. But this belief is entirely unfounded. The old tradition has not lost its compelling force in the modern world: it continues to exercise its mysterious power over all who submit to its influence, producing God-intoxicated and saintly characters like those of old. In the lives of Ram Mohan Roy, Debendranath Tagore, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Swami Vivekananda, Swami Ram Tirtha, to mention only a few names well-known in India, we find the same old scale of values and the same old concentration on the things of spirit.ISBN: 8130706601
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Pages : 376
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