INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

MESSIAH AND THE MONK
In a thought provoking book entitled OBJECTIVE
SOCIETY, Everett Knight has posed a problem of great
interest in typology and its consequences to social
understanding. His concern has been the extraordinary
situation to which academicians have arrived having
built themselves a way of looking at Society objectively
that is to say detachedly. The scientific out look has
been to look at the world contra-subjectively and this
has led to the hypostatising of categories galore which
have hardly objective existence though they have all
been invented or discovered in the course of the
necessity for assuming or presuming an objective world
independent of the subject or his experience. This
detachment from subjectivity and attachment to
objective reality as if it has nothing directly bearing on
the life of the individual or his ethic or politics or in one
word, his religion, has been a phenomenon which