ABSTRACT

India lies between the Asiatic north and the Pacific south, between Tibet and Ceylon. India ends abruptly at the foothills of the Himalayas, and at Adam's Bridge. Buddha disturbed the historical process by interfering with the slow transformation of the gods into ideas. Buddha has disappeared from Indian life and religion more than the people could ever imagine Christ disappearing in the aftermath of some future catastrophe to Christianity, more even than the Graeco-Roman religions have disappeared from present-day Christianity. There is a considerable revival of interest in classical philosophy. Universities like Calcutta and Benares have important philosophy departments. The conscious personality could be domesticated, because it was separated from the natural and primitive man. The understanding of synchronicity is the key which unlocks the door to the Eastern apperception of totality that the people find so mysterious.