Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

The spiritual approac4i to the problem of peace and progress visualizes in the main the Vedantic world view of the individual and the universe which lays down the unity of all existence including mankind and the essential divinity of man. [...] Three of these principles are stressed in p;irtcular : (1) the acceptance of the divinity of man and the full realization of that divinity as the highest ideal of life; (2) the acceptance 2 of 1the world and the body in which we live in this world and all that it means for what it really is and giving the world its fitting place in our scale of values; and (3) the pratice of concentration [...] To the reviewer the chapters (io and 14) on the 'Power of Mind' avd on the 'Technique of Integration of Personality' are the most significant in the book. [...] It is the everydayapplication of the love of God and the love of neighbour and the manifestation of divinity that is already in man. [...] It is interesting to observe in conclusion without offering any opinion as to the chronological position of the RVeda and the Indus Valley Civilization that the people of the Indus Valley had knowledge of the ocean and shipping and were mariners.