Book Title: World of Philosophy
Author(s): Christopher Key Chapple, Intaj Malek, Dilip Charan, Sunanda Shastri, Prashant Dave
Publisher: Shanti Prakashan
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matures into knowledge which is not mere intellectual conviction but direct experience, in which the votary of Truth and Truth become one, sraddhavan labhate jnanam. And Pandit Kaviraj was nothing if he was not sraddhavan, full of faith and reverence combined with critical intelligence working in conformity with faith leading on to that purification of buddhi which becomes enlightened and thus becomes transformed into intuitive insight. Pandit Kaviraj's was the seeing intelligence, not merely analytic and critical intellect but plastic, synthetic, harmonious and thus capable of reflecting and envisioning the Truth which is the Light of Lights, the supreme Prakasa, the Transcendent self luminous illumination, indwelling in everything that ever was, is and will be, indeed eternally unified with all its own self-manifestation in a bond of Love.
Pandit Kaviraj had a dream-that universal Love would be the cementing bond of all, God and man and the world abolishing all differences but not abrogating harmonious distinctions. This love would lusher in a new world and a new life in which will be vanquished the last enemy to be conquered, Death, and manifest Immortality here on Earth. This is, in nutshell the contribution of Pt. Gopinath Kaviraj a to the Tantric Philosophy of India.
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