மன்னாதி மன்னனுக்கு மற்றுமொரு மகுடம்
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பத்மஸ்ரீ முனைவர் ஔவை நடராசன்
அவர்களின் சிறப்புரை
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பகுதி-80
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டாக்டர்.இராதாகிருஷ்ணன் அவர்களின் பல்கலைக்கழக பட்டமளிப்பு உரை (பகுதி-VII)
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Wisdom is more easily gained through the study of literature, philosophy, religion. They interpret the higher laws of the universe. If we do not have a general philosophy or attitude of
life, our minds will be confused, and we will suffer from greed, pusillanimity, anxiety and defeatism. Mental slums are more dangerous to mankind than material slums.
Independent thinking is not encouraged in our world today. When we see a cinema, we think very fast to keep up with rapid changes of scene and action. This rapidity which the cinema gives its audiences and demands from them has its own effect
on the mental development. If we are to be freed from the debilitating effects and the nervous strain of modern life, if we are to be saved from the assaults which beat so insistently on us from the screen and the radio, from the yellow press and demagogy, defences are to be built in the minds of men,
enduring interests are to be implanted in them. We must learn to read great classics which deal with really important questions affecting the life and destiny of the human race. We must think for ourselves about these great matters but thinking for oneself
does not mean thinking in a vacuum, unaided, all alone. We need help from others, living or dead. We need help from the great of all ages, the poets, ‘the unacknowledged legislators of the world’s the philosophers, the creative thinkers, the artists.
Whereas in sciences we can be helped only by the contemporaries, in the humanities, help comes from the very great, to whatever age and race they may belong. At the deepest levels of existence, in the intimations of the nature of the Supreme, and the economy of the universe, in the insights into the power and powerlessness of man, the changing scene of history has its focus. The events of history reflect
the events in the souls of men.
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