ABSTRACT
The thought developed through intellectual curiosity and the search for knowledge, while action followed the sequence of external events. A philosophical mood through all stages of life from adolescence to old age is an apparent feature of Nehru’s character. Politics wholly absorbed Nehru from a comparatively early age, leaving him with little time for other interests. The mind of Nehru appears to be a complex one, obsessed as it is with various conflicts. A sense of mysteries and of unknown depths comes to Nehru at times, and he creates an urge in himself to understand them or even to experience them in their fullness. The spirit of dogma, Nehru says, has badly affected the religious quest of man. Nehru defines the better type of modern mind as practical and pragmatic, ethical and social, altruistic and humanitarian. The human mind appears to have a passion for finding out some kind of unity in life, in nature and the universe.
