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Presidential Address
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but the bonds soon get loose, and bhakti reigns supreme in its singleness and simplicity. Bhakti is now not only love but self-surrender (qafe). This union of the human will with the Divine Will may be in the manner of the young one of a monkey clinging to its mother, while the latter is freely jumping from tree to tree, or it may be like that of a kitten which is carried about by the mothercat in her mouth without the least effort on its own part ( Heror' or 'ASA-PUTT'). The original contribution of the Bhakti school of India which one misses in all the other theologies of the West and the East with the exception of Sufism (which betrays the influence of Vedānta and bhakti) is the discovery of God in Beauty as distinguished from God in Truth and God in Goodness.
I have thus endeavoured to show, within the short time at my disposal and the compass appropriate to an inaugural address, that the subject of Indian Philosophy admits of a historical treatment in which the rise of the different systems and the subsequent development of each system can be presented as one continuous story of Indian Thought governed by the principle of evolution.
A history written along these lines should be the first step towards modernising the study of Indian Philosophy.
IV - Let us next try to estimate the capacity of Indian Philosophy to fall in line with the speculations of Western thinkers. I do not propose, in this connection, to attempt a review of the ancient and
