The message of Bahagavan Das on the present significance of the Vedic Social Order

He saw such a background in the ancient wisdom of India, in Vedanta and in the Laws of Manu, in which social life is founded not upon what anyone happens at any time to think, but upon the profoundest understanding of the nature of the Cosmos and of Man’s place in it. And it is of the greatest significance that while his thought and experience was essentially in the world of what we call the First Revelation, he had also studied modern European philosophy and psychology and therefore thought and wrote taking into account the impact of the Third Revelation.

The notion of the Triune Revelation, which was developed by Dimitrije Mitrinovic, has been referred to in earlier Foundation Lectures. The three Revelations may be briefly recapitulated as: First: The revelation of the Divine Cosmic and Natural Order as revealed through sages and religious teachers before Christ. In this Revelation the duty of Man is to submit to God and His Divine Order.

Second: The Revelation of the Divine Man in Jesus Christ. In this Revelation the duty of Man is to follow Christ.

Third: The Revelation of the Divine in every man, which can be found in his own mind and heart if he will seek it. In this Revelation the duty of Man is to be true to his own self and his own true thinking.

Although these three Revelations succeeded one another in time, they are not to be regarded, as they sometimes wrongly are, as one superseding the other. The whole essence of the notion of the Triune Revelation is that although these three succeeded one another in history, they are three essential aspects of truth and as such inseparable. Truth is only to be found in their Triunity. Now just as there are many to point out that much of Christian doctrine derives from the pre-Christian thought of the First Revelation, so it is equally true that the First Revelation of the Divine Cosmic Order needs the Revelation of the Divine Man to complete it. And, just as the Christian Revelation must in our day not merely be accepted with faith, but be thought as far as possible with the critical mind, equally our modern critical thought—in which the Third Revelation is exaggerated as the illusion that we can freely think up new ideas on which to build a world—needs the notion Order, which is inherent in the First Revelation. It is one of the great works of Bhagavan Das to have brought this notion Order

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