The perennial Values of Indian Culture

Author: Swami LokeswaranandaEminent Contributors/Translator(s)/ Editors(s): Swami SarvabhutanandaPublisher: Ramakrishna Mission Institute of CultureYear: 2008Language: EnglishPages: 239ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187332638 DescriptionThere has been a deep underlying conviction in the Indian mind since time immemorial that beneath the ground of human life there lies a mine of gold, which proper digging and tilling, is to be brought upward if we want to remove all our wants. But unfortunately most of us are unaware of our richest heritage and spend our lives in utter penury. In our time, it was left to Swami Vivekananda to remind us of it once again, when he defined education as ‘the manifestation of the perfection already in man’. The Upanishad ages back, told us of the same thing through beautiful imagery: ‘As those who are unaware of the worth in gold of the land or field, over which they move all the time again and again, under which lies embedded a mine of gold, similarly all beings,