A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy c2.13

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and he taught the virtue of Concourse ( Samavāya ). Akbar sought after the universal vision by summoning a Council of Religion, for perchance, in that way, he thought that ‘ that lock whose key had been lost might be opened ’. There is a far cry from the days of Plato and Śaṅkarācārya, or of Akbar and Aśoka, to the present day. Knowledge has taken immense strides with the growth of time. Scientific inventions have enormously enriched the patrimony of man. The old order has changed, and a new one has taken its place. Nevertheless, the goal of human life as well as the means for its attainment have remained the same. Unquestionably, the search after God remains the highest problem even to-day, and a philosophical justification of our spiritual life is as necessary to-day as it was hundreds of years ago.” More information about the Academy could be had from the Director of the Academy of Philosophy and Religion, Poona Branch, Poona, or, Nimbal, M. S. M. Railway, District Bijapur, India.