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This new cycle commenced with the emergence of Brahmo Samaj, Arya Samaj, and the movement associated with the great names of Shri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda, as also a strong neo-Vaishnavic tendency. Brahmo Samaj combined the Vedantic inspiration and a strong dose of religious rationalism and intellectualism. The three stages of its growth corresponded with the philosophies, respectively, of Jnanayoga, Bhaktiyoga and Karmayoga. Arya Samaj founded itself on a fresh interpretation of the truth of the Veda and an attempt to apply old Vedic principles of life to modern conditions. Shri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda have provided a very wide synthesis of past religious motives and spiritual experiences with a pronounced return to Vedanta. The neo-Vaishnavism has clearly declared the Veda and Upanishads, Bhagavadgita as its sources.
As we entered into the 20th century, Indian philosophy reached surprisingly its peak achievements in Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo provided not only a new synthesis of the Vedic synthesis, Upanishadic synthesis, synthesis of the Bhagavadgita and of Tantra, but also a new discovery and a new philosophy and Yoga of the integral aim of life, The philosophy of "The Life Divine" is a most comprehensive system, which has come to be acknowledged as the greatest synthesis of the East and the West.
In the academic circles of Indian philosophers, we find a serious understanding of the long history of various schools of Indian philosophy and also a comparative study in the light of strenuous study of the Western thought. Some of the best philosophers of India have attained high competence and even mastery over Western thought, and a few of them are being included among the front-rank philosophers of the world. In all these, currents of, philosophical thought, the Upanishads have played a major role, and it is becoming clearer that even the Veda needs to be revisited so as to derive from it fresh springs of re-invigorating waters.
Sri Aurobindo's great contribution in bringing to light a new interpretation of the Veda that establishes the Veda as a book of knowledge has brought back the primacy of the Veda, and considering that his major philosophical work "The Life Divine” contains a re
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