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The land of India numbers over three hundred millions of human beings, varying in race, religion and manners. Its history began far back in the dim days and con- tinues unbroken to this day. It is because that history has been so much a tale of immigration and invasion that India presents to-day so many facts. There is one outstanding division which reveals itself intermittenly but unendingly the Hindu and the Mahomedan of India, remind the casual observer of the Jews and the Samaritan. Could the energies of such a land of millions be said to have any focus? A Hindu professor has recently at- tempted to explain to a British audience--and to all who care to read the Hindu view of life. The occasion was the deliverance last year of the Upton lectures at Manchester College, Oxford.
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The Caste System.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1927.
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describe the general principles of into metaphysics, that assern. religious knowledge and growth." blage of mental cobwebs. Whe Nowhere more than In India has, the Maya doctrine is typically tradition been respected. "A so- Hindu and whether the world of ciety which puts a halo of sauc sense is fundamentally unreal tity round its tradition gains an and "life is a dream," are ques An eminent Indian has recently inestimable advantage of power tions to which no conclusive and permanence. The Vedic answers have been given. There complained that his country and tradition became surrounded with are some problems for which no its ways are unknown, to other sanctity, and so helped to trans final solutions can be offered, and citizens of the British Empire mit culture and ensure the con- we and the professor referring whose shores are washed by the tinuity of civilisation." One aur to Bradley's "wise attitude of prising result was that those agnosticism." But the Hindu Indian Ocean. Such ignorance ancient Hindu philosophers were polytheist is far from agnostic, would be regrettable, not least of regarded as orthodox who accept- unless his polytheism is a baffled all because the races and tribes ed and interpreted the Upaniads effort towards monotheism.
or philosophical treaties sprung
Maya may give rise to specula-! of India make up a large portion from the Vedas; it mattered not tions beyond the reach of the of the human race. Ignorance how radically critical that inter- Hindu layman, but Karma is a of the Empire on the part of pretation might be. If a new familiar doctrine to all. It is
Interpretation created a
one which no outsider can ignore those who live in it is unfortun-sect, it was but another illustra- If he wishes to understand the ate and surprising in an era of tion of the necessity of toleration, Hindu view of life. It focuses cheap maps and cheapened travel, the interpretation being valuable the distinction of East and West; as well as of wireless communica in itself. No marvel if "Hindu- it reveals what seem the strength ism has come to be a tapestry of and weakness of Hindu thought, tion. There are pumps in every the most variegated tissues and and it bears immediately on parish. But if democracy counts almost endless diversity of hue,"action and conduct. It provides heads instead of breaking them more especially because of the in fact a transition from theory (as we are assured) democrats Hindu's passion for dialectic and to practice. might pardonably be attracted by splitting of hairs. Then again, it was recognised that different density of population,
The remarkable feature of ages have not only different duties, but different types or practical Hinduism is the caste religious experience, for all of system alternately praised and which special books were pre-execrated. From ancient times scribed. Only the oldest men, the life of the Hindu man was those whose life of duty was over, spilt up into four divisions; he were to mediate on the profound is first student, then in turn problems of philosophy, and the householder, forest dweller, as- nature of the Absolute, or God. cetic; and the last stage is the Learners all, one might say; to most honoured. Just as the life every age and stage its appro- of the individual has strict divi- priate wisdom. "It is, however, sions and duties so the life of the unfortunately the case," says community. Hindu castes are of Professor Radhakrishnan, "that many origins; they are tribal, the majority of the Hindus do not racial, sectarian, occupational. insist on this graduated scale but Then there are the "untouch- acquiesce in admittedly unsatis-ables." The Sanskrit word for factory conceptions of God..... caste referred to colour. In early There has not been in recent times the caste institution may ensured racial purity. times any serious and systematic have endeavour to praise the mental "Caste, on its racial side, is the level of the masses and place the affirmation of the infinite diver-i whole Hindu population on a sity of human groups." "It is higher spiritual plane." The the law of use and wont that dis- cause of this, he finds in the tinguishes one group from its native tolerance of the Hindu. neighbours. Caste is really cus- From the very beginning, when tom." Was it not a necessity? the invading Aryans accepted the "Casts was the gods of the aboriginals whose land Hinduism to the forces pressing they were entering, the Hindus on it from outside. It was the have been receptive of strange instrument by which Hinduism cults. When once the cults civilised the different tribes it
taken into
Hinduism, took in. Any group of people to Western readers because it alteration sets in as the result of appearing exclusive in any sense into German by Dr. E. F. Marx, s written with knowledge of West the influence of the higher is a caste. Whenever a group ern modes of thought. In this thought." Assimilation is pos-represents a type a caste arises. new book, he attempts, he says, sible since there is something in it a heresy is born in the bosom "to state the central principles of
every cult worth assimilating. of the mother faith, and if it and polities should make him the Hindu view of life." He is When a new cult is accepted by spreads and produces a new type, eminently suitable for this under aware of the difficulty of assign Hinduism the name is retained a new casts arises. The Hindu taking. He is arranging to begin Ing a precise meaning to the term though a refinement of the con- society has differentiated as many publication in serial form in a Hinduism, which now is used tent is effected." Finally, we types as can be reasonably differ- Cologne newapaper, and it is ex-1 most frequently to cover what has reach the statement that differ- tiated, and is prepared to accept pected that this wartime novel will been described as a "weiter of ences in name become immaterial now ones as they arise. It stands be received with great interest in ereeds." Originally, it had a for the Hindu, since every name, for the ordered complexity, the Germany, where there is a demand territorial significance; the at its best, connotes the same harmonised multiplicity, the for all British books. Hindus were so-called because metaphysical and moral perfec- many in one which is the clue to their earliest forefathers (in
tions." It is somehow surprising the structure, of the universe." some "wandering of the peoples") to be told that Kali and Buddha The author is not living in settled in the land drained by the as historical names can be used Illusion. "Paradoxical as it may river system of the Sindh or indiscriminately for the Absolute seem, the system of caste is the Indus, a land corresponding to Reality. The equation would outcome of tolerance and trust. the North-West Frontier pro disturb many European admirers Though it has now degenerated vince and the Punjab. Now of the austere Buddha. But per- into an instrument of oppression Hinduism stands for the religion haps the disturbance would be and intolerance, though it tends which is at least descended from just the measure of their failure to perpetuate inequality and the religion of those early to appreciate the Hindu view. develop the spirit of exclusive- Hindus, and is based in theory on Hindulam does not believe, says ness, these unfortunate effects the primitive sacred books known Professor Radhakrishnan, in are not the central motives of the as the Vedas.
If the forcing up the pace of develop-system.
progressive In the first chapter there is a ment. One thing is clear; he thinkers of India had the power, plunge into religious experience claims for the Hindus the largest as they undoubtedly have the Is this the simplest line of ad- measure of toleration, and wittily authority, they would transform vance to the Hindu view of life? remarks that "those who love the institution out of recogni One was prepared for an early their sects more than truth end tion." The admission is signi excursion into politics but one by loving themselves more than ficant and a system is tested by remembers that even the arena of their sects." On the other hand its working results. polities, so sordid in some West where nearly everything is ante- ["The Hindu View of Life." ern countries, may be, as it were, cedently tolerable, the virtue of Upton Lectures
delivered st an annexe of the temple in toleration seems less praise Oxford, 1926, George Allen and India. One remembers that Mr. worthy, or, at least, more easily Unwin, Ltd.]· Gandhi appeared at one time al
practised. most simultaneously in the roles of political leader and saint. Even the Briton, who can couple
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Hindu View of Life. Professor Radakrishnan King George V. Professor of Philosophy in Calcutta Univer- sity, and the author of a history of Indian philosophy which is the more illuminating and valuable
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Polytheism.
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CHILDREN LIKE CHAMBER- LAIN'S PAIN BALM,
For "black and blue" bruises, and ankles,
Church and State mechanically, of Hindu polytheism lie certain is at a loss. "Religion," Baya the professor, "le not the accept abiding modes of thought. None ance of academic ebatractions or of these have provoked more disprains of wrists the celebration of ceremonies, cussion than Maya and Karma, strains of cords and muscles, stub- but a kind of life or experience. Maya meana Blusion, and the bed toes, cuts, burns and other easy statement is made that the tain's Pain Balm always gives re- mishaps of childhood, Chamber- But for all that, Hinduism has visible, audible, tangible world tief. Does just as much for older & basis and original inspiration in rests on Maya-really does not people too. Eases their rheumatic the ancient Vedas, which bring exist. Such a view, if seriously pains, backaches and neuralgia, together the different ways in bold and defended, will probably Just rub it on the sore spots. It which the religions-minded of enrage the European official, and la penetrating and quickly helps. that age experienced reality, and certainly involves an excursion Bold and recommended everywhere.
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