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DR. S. RADHAKRISHNAN
(a biographic note)
Rajendra Prasad
Robert Browning has said "The meanest of mankind has two sides of his life, one to face the world with and the other to show the woman he loves. We have two sides, one in ordinary life and the other when we write about ourselves for the public."
Through his writings, which constitute his main life-work, he has tried to communicate the vital ideas which have shaped his life. In this light, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, as an eminent philosopher has also described in his autobiography. He says-"Philosophy was chosen one of his optional and special subject, although it was the result of my character, when I was in early stage was admitted in the Christian College. Madras. where I decided my future interest, when I took at the series of accidents that have shaped my life, I am persuaded that there is more in this life than meets the eye. Life is not a mere chain of physical causes apd effects. Chance seems to form the surface of reality, but deep down other forces are at work. If the universe is a living one; if it is spiritually alive, nothing in it is merely accidental. The moving finger writes, and having writ mores on."
Dr. S. Krishnan when, however, adopted philosophy as a means of his life-work, he entered a domain which sustained him both intellectually and spiritually all these years, Philosophy promotes the creative task, although in one sense it is a lonely pilgrimage of the spirit, in another sense it is a function of life.
Dr. Krishnan says, "his approach to the problems of philosophy from the angle of religion or distinct from that of science or of history was determined by his early training. In the background of rich Indian culture it is always counted in the process of the study of philosophy. In spite of several regidities of Traditional Indianculture some of the most favourite as moral value. Through his connection with Great Britain, India is once again brought into relationship with the Western world. The interpretation of the two great current of human effort at such a crises in the history of the human race is not without meaning for the future. With its profound sense of spiritual reality brooding over the world of our
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