It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.
Interpretation
India's spiritual depth has allowed it to endure beyond political and social changes.
In this quote, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan emphasizes that India's resilience through history is rooted not in its political or social frameworks, but in its profound spiritual heritage. This spirituality acts as a stabilizing force, enabling the nation to withstand the challenges posed by time and the unpredictable events that have shaped its past.
In practice
During a lecture on the importance of spirituality in culture, one might quote this to emphasize India's unique position in history.
Hinduism is not just a faith. It is the union of reason and intuition that can not be defined but is only to be experienced. Evil and error are not ultimate. There is no Hell, for that means there is a place where God is not, and there are sins which exceed his love.
The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.
Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.
The word Atman (Soul) means the "breath of life". Atman is the principle of man's life, the Soul that pervades his being, his breath, his intellect and transcends them. Atman is what remains when everything that is not the self is eliminated. It is the unborn and immortal element in man, which is not to be confused with body, mind or intellect.
God is the Soul of all souls - The Supreme Soul - The Supreme Consciousness.
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
Science is nothing but perception.
Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not . . . ”—Badu pauses to get her words together; she wants this point to be very clear—“. . . when it is not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment. Then it becomes confusing.
In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate.
FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
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