... acclaim. It was she who helped Abanindranath awaken his artistic consciousness. In any case, it is clear that every Indian will be indebted to her forever. You should all read her books - The Web of Indian Life, The Cradle-Tales of Hinduism, Kali the Mother and The Master as I Saw Him." "Did she have any spiritual realisations?" asked Amal. "She must have had, but we never discussed them ...

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The Renaissance in India > A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture - 1

... Nivedita's Web of Indian Life or Mr. Fielding's book on Burma or Sir John Woodroffe's studies of Tantra. These are attempts to push aside all concealing veils and reveal the soul of a people. It may well be that they do not give us all the hard outward fact, but we are enlightened of something deeper which has its greater reality; we get not the thing as it is in the deficiencies of life, but its ideal... judgment founded on translations can only deal with the substance,—and even that in most translations of Indian work is only the dead substance with the whole breath of life gone out of it. Still even here Goethe's well-known epigram on the Shakuntala will be enough by itself to show me that all Indian writing is not of a barbarous inferiority to European creation. And perhaps we may find a scholar here... A Defence of Indian Culture A Defence of Indian Culture A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture The Renaissance in India I A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture - 1 When we try to appreciate a culture, and when that culture is the one in which we have grown up or from which we draw our governing ideals and are likely from overpartiality to minimise ...