Bharatiya Chintan ki Parampara me Navin Sambhavanae Part 2

Author(s): Radheshyamdhar Dvivedi
Publisher: Sampurnanand Sanskrut Vishvavidyalaya Varanasi

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भारतीय चिन्तन की परम्परा में नवीन सम्भावनाएं as intelligent, blissful Energy, of the nature of consciousness, Spiritually and philosophically speaking, Sacchit Anand is the usual designation by which the ultimate Reality is known. Sat means that which exists, Self-existent Being. Chit is supreme self-consciousness. Anand is suprenal delight, joy abounding. These are not three separate existences but one integral existence-Supreme self-existent, Self-conscious infinite potential and eternal delight. Creation is selfexpression of the potential, perfect manifestation out of joy and for joy and in joy. Participation in this joyous, sportful Self-expression of God without any sense of ego, reducing ones self to zero, and with a sense of complete non-attachment (anāsakta ) is the Dharma of each person. This is 'seeing God face to face'. This is self realization and this is the righteous ambition of each human being who is in quest of the truth being, truth of living and the law of life.
When Gandhi averted and declared that God is Truth, he did not do so out of respect for tradition, or because it is fashionable to declare ones belief in God. The full significance of his declaration lies in the fact that he had not only known and thought of God but had experienced God's omnipresence by his total being, every cell of his body, by his thinking and reasoning faculty, by his emotional and aesthetic self, by his moral sense, and by his whole spiritual consciousness. His belief was the result of his rational conviction as well as his experience, not only in moments of prayer and meditation but even as he spun on his Charkha and led vast masses of men and women in the struggle for India's independence, Even God's existence had to satisfy the criteria of Truth, the satisfaction of all the tools of knowledge with which man is endowed. It is only then that
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