PROPAGATE THE VEDANTA ZEALOUSLY ACROSS THE WORLD

PROPAGATE THE VEDANTA ZEALOUSLY ACROSS THE WORLD 

The Vedanta in simple and practical terms must be heavily preached and propagated within the country and abroad. This is an existential necessity for humanity torn apart by religious intolerance stemming from inhuman fundamental 'divine' doctrine that is held inviolable and, hence, unalterable. Such doctrinaire absolutism fuels fanaticism whose evil effects we are witnessing the world over. The Vedanta holds the key to future human harmony as its principles are thoroughly humanistic, rational, open to all intellectual challenge and has no blasphemy bar throttling progressive thinking that strikes at its foundations intellectually. This ancient thought-system of the Hindus must be disseminated throughout the world with active patronage of the Government of India for the world to learn how to exist in peace. If the GOI does it, the whole of humanity one day will remain grateful to it when it will reap its rich harvest.

Written by Sugata Bose

P.S. Dara Shukoh, the Mughal prince, heir-apparent to Emperor Shah Jahan, was the first one who commissioned the translation of the Upanishads into Persian from where they later got translated into the European languages and became a subtle philosophical force in the West. Arthur Schopenhauer has testified his gratitude to the Upanishads in shaping his mature thinking, his ultimate reflections on life and existence. He called the Upanishads his solace in life and death. Walt Whitman, William James, Emerson, Max Mueller, Paul Deussen, Romain Rolland, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, D.H. Lawrence, Huston Smith and a host of other Western savants, scholars, Indologists and writers have directly or indirectly expressed their debt to the wisdom of the Upanishads. And it is these Upanishads that form the body of the Vedanta.