HINDU RENAISSANCE AND DEVELOPMENTAL MOVEMENT IN INDIA
Keywords:
Hindu Renaissance, Reform Movements, Bhakti-Karma movement, Arya SamajAbstract
Through nearly four thousand years of its struggle for self-experience and self-expression in the face of internal and external opposing forces, India has sustained herself as perhaps the most
enduring spiritualistic tradition in the world. The richness of her past triumphs in matters concerning the soul, the vitality of her quest for transcendental experience, the ultimate freedom of man from the limiting and shallow phenomenal world, her unique performance in absorbing Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Islam and Judaism, unrestrained renunciation of her saints and seers
for the sake of transtemporal paradise of bliss, and her intense love for and practice of peace-all these bear testimony to her spiritual excellence and valour. At the same time this very same
inner power of assimilation awakened the Indian community to a new consciousness of change and transformation.
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