Word: radhakrishnan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first solution considered was that of the modern Hindu mystics, represented by the Indian philosopher Radhakrishnan, who seeks to reduce all religious concepts to a common denominator of mystical truth. But in retracting his mind from all contact wtih his senses, the Hindu fails to extract the essence of all religion, and instead attempts to find the way to essential truth through his mystical vision. Newbigin declared that men are too much caught in the concentration of life to avoid its problems by inward contemplation...
Craze for Power. The day before, Vice President Radhakrishnan, onetime Oxford don, had been even blunter. "The craze for power and personal ambition [has created] a state of demoralization," he said. These and other signs of political stirring by long-ossified Congress members throughout the country were regarded by the staid Times of India as "an examination of the conscience." The Times thought sadly that the examination might have come too late. "Congress was once a good cause," the paper said. "Now it's degenerating into a bad habit...
Scratch for Pomp. Nehru and Vice President Radhakrishnan hope to hack away the middle-aged fat that, is debilitating the once lean and lithe party of Gandhi. Congress has grown complacent with victory, corrupt, nepotistic, aloof from the masses and rent with internal squabbles. Although Nehru bitterly condemns voting by caste, by linguistic factions or religious groups, many of his nominal followers openly espouse such causes in their campaigns...
...Radhakrishnan's interpretation of Karma, says Dr. Moses, "is of tremendous practical significance. It comes to undergird the many efforts that are being made by the government and the people of India to lift the fallen, to remove untouchability and in general to help the less fortunate to help himself...
Beyond the Signpost. Dr. Radhakrishnan himself turns his face to the West in a new book out next week-a series of lectures delivered at Montreal's McGill University in 1954-under the title East & West, the End of their Separation (Harper; $2.50). To Westerners he stresses the movement of the heart rather than that of the head. "The essential religious experience is not a matter of belief in a set of propositions but is a movement of the whole self to the daily challenge of actual human relations." True to the essence of Hinduism, he sees many ways...