| The wisest man
of Greece, Socrates said, "The noblest of all investigations is the study of what man
should be and what he should pursue". Indian thought which has had a hoary antiquity,
from the earliest times, focussed its attention and directed the search-light of its
reasoning and analysis to the subject of the meaning and purpose of man's life on earth.
The sages, seers, prophets and poets of India were profoundly interested in this study of
what man should be and what man should pursue. It is
generally recognised now that Indian thinkers exhibit a marked tendency to approach
questions like these in a scientific spirit and to investigate them with the aid of their
power of systematic logic and clear cut analysis.They endeavor to discover what the
supreme goal of life is, and then, to comprehend the nature of the fundamental aspirations
of the human heart, to study its psychological tendencies and to deduce therefrom what the
objectives of life are and what they should be. |
