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outcome of inexhaustive research and the acceptance of a part for the whole. All most all our disputes only betray the pig headedness of the blind men? who spoke differently about an elephant. The outstanding personalities (like Aurobindo, Raman Maharshi etc. ) spoke to us, in a world over organised by ideological fanaticism, that truth is not exclusive or sectarian. In fact, the spirit of India is a foe to every kind of fanaticism and intellectual narrowness.2 Huxley asks us to persuade people that every idol however noble it may seem, is ultimately a Moloch that devours it worshippers. In other words, it is fatal to treat the relative and the home made as though it were the Absolute.3
Dr. Schillip also observes that humanity is tottering today on the brink of the principle of self-annihilation for lack of understanding. 4 It is at the levels of human relationships that we reach the acme of misunderstanding. 5 Prof. Tatia also holds that only intellectual clarity will resolve all conflict and rivalry. All dogmatism owes its genesis to this partiality of outlook and fondness for a line of thinking to which a person has accustomed himself.? In his message to the Silver Jubilee Session of Indian Philosophical Congress, CP. Ramaswamy also observes that “work and sacrifice (for peace ) can only be on the lines of an abandonment of the so called imperia
1. Mohan Lall D, Desai : Naya-karņika, Introduction. 2. S. Radhakrishnan : Presidential Address, Silver Jubilee
Session of Indian Philosophical Congress, Calcutta. 3. Aldous Huxley : In his message to the Silver Jubilee
Session of Indian Philosophical Congress. 4. Paul Arthur Schillip : On Human Understanding, Silver
Jubilee Vol. II. 5. Ibid. 6. Nathmal Tatia ; Naya-ways of Observation, Approach, 198. 7. Ibid.
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