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KARMAYOGIN
A WEEKLY REVIEW
OF
National Religion, Literature, Science,
Philosophy, &C.
Vol. 1
19th CHAITRA, 1316.
No. 39.
PASSING THOUGHTS. the dawning orn with us once in - - -
auch matters the young are never The signs of Now Agt.
un-led in Europe. Still, led or an. The signs of a new age are about
led, we are mich mintaken if great
initiative in any field ever comen 118 in many directions. We are indeed growing so scenatomed to the
from the old, and after all, the cri.
terion of vitality, for races and for idea that wo sometimo, possibly, HAR me too much. We talk
nations, must lie inally, not in the too
ago of the rank and file, but in the easily of a new age, forgetting that
ideas find if we would idulge such thoughts we
question whether new must be content to pay bigb price
response among them, whetber great for the privilege. Hence it may be
causes go un-led, and whether there
bo verifice and enthusinam onough well to stop a moment and tako stock, it were of the signs of the
to carry the weight of the banner, in
the unending content of humanity times, counting the cost once and
betwoen 'has been' and 'in to be again, to us and ours, of the course
Our losses. on which we have entered, reading The future then lien always with the omess of the day that has just the young. Alwayo, in all ovuntries. now dawned. The signs are not by In this we have no reason to feel any means all good. It is true, Ashamed. But we must not shut there is a new spirit abroad in the
our eyes to the fnct that in our reland. It is true that the young
cent struggle for self-development to-day have much vaster and we have netted somo losedin. Rights inore oumplex notion of their duties
which had hitherto been left in our than had their father before them. Thanda, liberties which had not hither. Changes corso always from the
to bren tampered with, are gone young, and we need not apologia from ne, and we are an much the for the fact that it is then whom poorer in mente of work. On the we have to take into noonunt. In other hand fow signs of the timen all countries the young are les ex are more noteworthy than the atti ploited in the service of things m tudo in which these lonces have been they an, than the old; and conte met. In an earlier generation, the quently they are more sensitive to SD Wer world have been a lond out the hint of new spiritus foron ory and persistent agitation, for thin other la the week, it is true; tbe repeal of this act and that. To society w whole hus spoolised day, we hear nothing of the sort more or less in that partionlar group WhySimply because we are now
idous that are characteristio of convinced that our salvation lien
with ourselves, and with no other, to work out. It is not politica, but constructive work and energy that now occupies the bulk of our atten tion. In itself, this is most significant. And what do we regard m constructive ? Only that which proceeds on the assumption that all power is in vurselves; that Iodin and the Indian people are ultimately the arbiters of their own destiny: that a pation is greater than ito conditions, favourable or the reverse; that MAN, in fine, is all there in, the lord of his own fate, the expres. sion of infinite power. Construo. Live work then is that which deals with man,first and foremost, believem in man, inspires hin, and proceeris to tell him of his strength. This is the work which we humbly seek to do. And in this looking from the institution to the man be. hind the institution, we feel that we see one of the niunt impressive signs of the new age. The Now Day.
A day has risen in lod when we look to telten alone. We refuso to spend time or energy in #PI** ing to any but ourvelies. We should derpine the privilege we owed to any. thing but our own strength. Like the Krishna of our child , we un ter our Marburs with all the forcen of the world waiust us. Nor do we carry any extraneus aid. Neither steed nur wenpon in wurs, in this unequal content. But it really
