IV. BRAIN OF INDIA (i) THE time has perhaps come for the Indian mind, long pre-occupied with political and economic issues for a widening of its horizon. Such a widening is especially necessary for Bengal. The Bengali has always led and still leads the higher thought of India, because he has eminently the gifts which are most needed for the new race that has to arise. He has the emotion and imagination which is open to the great inspirations, the mighty heart-stirring ideas that move- humanity when a great step forward has to be taken. He has the invaluable gift of thinking with the heart. He has, too, a subtle brain which is able within certain limits to catch s

VI. MIND OF LIGHT A NEW humanity means for us the appearance, the development of a type or race of mental beings whose principle of mentality would be no longer a mind in the Ignorance seeking for knowledge but even in its knowledge bound to the Ignorance, a seeker after Light but not its natural possessor, open to the Light but not an inhabitant of the Light, not yet a perfected instrument, truth-conscious and . delivered out of the Ignorance. Instead, it would be possessed already of what could be called a mind of Light, a mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth conscious and manifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect knowledge. Its mentalit

VII. THE EDUCATION OF THE VITAL OF all education, the education of the vital is perhaps the most important and the most indispensable. And yet is it rarely taken up and followed with understanding and method. There are several reasons for it: first, human thinking is in a great confusion over what concerns this particular subject, secondly, the enterprise is very difficult and to be successful in it one must have endurance, endless persistence and an inflexible will. Indeed, the vital, in man's nature, is a despotic and exacting tyrant. Moreover, since it holds within itself power, energy, enthusiasm, effective dynamism many have a feeling of timorous respect f