Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c10.s3.32

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moral purpose which, as we have pointed out, leave little scope for the moral struggles and aspirations of mankind. The whole literature of Caitanyaism, its elaborately composed theology, poetry and drama, is callously unmoral ignoring this aspect of humanity, with the result that the larger humanity in its turn has practically ignored it. In the literary productions there is, no doubt, a curious blend of the personal and the mystic, but we have pictures only of ordinary human emotions of the softer and more luscious kind; of sterner virtues there is not a trace, nor is there any tremendous spectacle of the spiritual struggles of the human soul and its deeper agonies. The great precepts of deliverance, redemption or salvation become meaningless from the ethical standpoint, being emptied of their ethical content and undirected towards an ethically conceived world, man or god.