THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA
approximation of the values of human life with the eternal and the divine values. Nor do we mean the exclusion of any- thing whatsoever from our scope, of any of the great aims of human life, any of the great problems of our modem world, any form of human activity, any general or inherent impulse or characteristic means of the desire of the soul of man for deve- lopment, expansion, increasing vigour and joy, light, power, perfection. Spirit witout mind, spirit without body is n ot the type of man, therefore a human spirituality must not belittle the mind, life or body or hold them of small account : it will rather hold them of high account, of immense importance, precisely because they are the conditions and instruments of the life of the spirit in man. The ancient Indian culture attached quite as much value to the soundness, growth and strength of the mind, life and body as the old Hellenic or the modem scientific thought, although for a different end and a greater motive.
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