Sambodhi 1989 Vol 16

Author(s): Ramesh S Betai, Yajneshwar S Shastri
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

Page 18

It has been said about Dr. Radhakrishnan that he was essentially a philosopher of life. To him thought was meaningless unless it was related to life. He is grieved to find that, "We are taught to fly in the air like birds, and to swim in the water like fishes, but how to live on the earth like men we do not know". For him service is prayer. "We worship the creator by working for a new creation, a new society". It should not be surprising therefore that Dr. Radhakrishnan should find the Gitā to be after his own heart. In the true spirit of the Gita his exposition of its teaching is broad-based, aiming at the essential harmony, and emphasising all that is significant for man's understanding of the true religion of the spirit that lifts him up to Divine height. It is in this sense that Dr. Radhakrishnan stands by and for the Gitä,