DROWNED TEMPLE OF BUILDING MODERN INDIA

Deserted now by all!? Bewildered, list;

The yeilding was the bending of a flower.

 

Who live again in minds made better by their presence, 

Who live in pulses stirred to generosity, 

In deeds of daring rectitude, 

गासियां मंदिर

In scorn for miserable aims that end with self, 

In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars ; 

Who, with their mild persistence, urge man's search 

To vaster issues.

In the Era of amazing discoveries of Science, the wonderful advance in human arts, the birth of new conceptions of rights and duties, the emergence of new sociological truths, have brought about a rapid evolution of things in the world, upsetting old political institutions, undermining religious organizations, and revolutionizing Society. Old governments, social orders, usages and religious sanctions have been swept away in Europe and America. The same process has for some time been at work in Asia in Turkey, Japan, China, India, and other countries. There is hardly a country of the world that has not been touched by the "divine discontent" with the old order based on the exigencies of earlier times. 

Rangnath Temple

India is now in a ferment. Caught amidst the 

vortex of the new world-forces which have shaken the foundations and fabrics of the old institutions 

and civilizations, it could not but be influenced by 

them. Intellectual revolution, that is, revolution in 

thoughts and ideas, which always precedes a 

material and moral revolution, has for some time past been going on in India, and old values of things are now being revised, modified and sometimes rejected. 

Ruins of Rangnath Temple

Change is the law of life, as it is of nature. 

Stagnation and want of movement bring death. A 

society that fears and fights against change, that 

refuses to move, withers and dies. An adjustment 

of relations between the ever-changing facts and 

conditions surrounding a man and his acts and practices, is necessary to enable him to live and prosper. So is it with a community or a nation. 

But From the axed trees,

Offshoots of saplings rise.

Overlooking the Divine Temples of Life,

Beneath the blue skies,

On the shores of the dark blue seas!