Word: radhakrishnan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field of politics. Nehru carried on Gandhi's social reforms, introducing laws that sheared away the encumbrances of caste and custom that held Hinduism mired in the past. Thus freed, modern Hinduism is experiencing a new flowering of philosophical thought under the leadership of Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan...
Cause & Effect. Oxford-trained Philosopher Radhakrishnan had behind him a career as vice chancellor of Benares Hindu University and professor of eastern religions and ethics at Oxford when he became India's Ambassador to Russia in 1949. Today, at 68, he is his country's Vice President. But Protestant Moses is sure he will be remembered far longer for his effect on Hinduism. His neo-Vedantism, says Moses, "has newly interpreted the basic conceptions of Hinduism." Since the classic commentators of the 13th century and before, "we have not had anyone in the intervening centuries equal to this...
...these new interpretations is that of Maya. Reality, says the classic Vedanta doctrine, is one-hence all plurality (Maya) is illusion. And if all man experiences is illusion, why worry about anything? This interpretation is widely blamed for the traditional passivity of Indians and their unconcern with social injustice. Radhakrishnan argues, says Moses, that "the spatiotemporal world is no empty dream or inexplicable illusion. It is only a lower order of reality, an order which has no being in itself but only in God." Consequently, this world becomes real, ethical behavior serious, and human history meaningful...
...Radhakrishnan has also sharply revised the doctrine of Karma. This belief teaches that each man is bound to an endless series of reincarnated lives, in each of which he expiates the sins accumulated in the life before. It has been criticized, writes Moses, "as implying an inescapable fatalism, as not allowing for any real freedom or forgiveness, and as being at the root of the terrible evil of untouchability." Radhakrishnan conceives Karma "as nothing more than the law of cause and effect in the moral world. 'Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.' " Karma, then, merely...
...York to represent the President at the departure of Britain's Queen Mother; returned to Washington in time to meet French Premier Mendes-France; escorted Mendes-France to the White House and the National Press Club; lunched with Vice Presidents Richard Nixon of the U.S. and Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan of India; escorted 32 women from U.N. headquarters to a meeting with Mrs. Eisenhower; greeted Chancellor Raab at Union Station...