Book Title: World of Philosophy
Author(s): Christopher Key Chapple, Intaj Malek, Dilip Charan, Sunanda Shastri, Prashant Dave
Publisher: Shanti Prakashan
View full book text
________________
In the background of these observations, it may be said that the development of universal ideal through the establishment of a more intimate relation of love is the organic relation between the individual and transcendent. In this stage, the human life cannot be taken as distinct and unreal, it is indentical with the confronted and ever changing reality where the transcendent universality exists in and through the other.
III
It may be observed thus that the evolution of finite nature of the individual man and the confronted nature in different forms, the transcendent infinite nature of man in its aspiration to realise the transcendent eternal human value of universality in the form of the infinite ideal of unity in love is developed. In this connection we may refer to the ideas of some western thinkers like Green and Bosanquet and Indian thinker like Rabindranath Tagore who put much emphasis upon the finite-infinite nature of men in several cultural backgrounds. For the unfoldment of infinite potentiality of man and for its systematic development in human existence/ Green refers to the potential urge of the individual "to make himself what he has the possibility of becoming". This form of developing infinitness in man, is evaluated by Rabindranath Tagore in a more comprehensive cultural form as to become Infinite. In 'Sadhana? he explains this state as the state of realising 'highest perfection that there is.'
This state of “highest perfection' in concrete human situation is to be regarded as the final stage of developing transcendent consciousness in love, which, in the context of this advanced cultural programme, is the devine union in the human orders and social processes. It may be noted in this connection that Man, through the realisation of eternal human value of love, feels the existence of universality or infiniteness in him. In this state of existence, man through the development of the relation of love with the Infinite, in the different states of life and society, finally develops the relation of reciprocity, and becomes infinite or Universal. Thus in the context of this analysis of human existence expressed through the inner process of world culture, it may be observed that universality as ideal is eternal, man is eternal in concrete human situation, and the relation of love also is eternal, which is a perfect organic relation in a concrete form in social relations in developing world view in culture
This type of highest state of human life and existence is to be recognised as the final state of human freedom or the salvation through unity. The salvation is not the superimposition of something on human nature/ but is the natural expression or self-manifestation of human
669
