Thoughts of Narla V.R.

GODS, GOBLINS AND MEN
THOUGHTS OF NARLA V.R.
(Narla Venkateswara rao expressed his thoughts on various subjects. Some of them are aphoristic and powerful. Here are some such ideas)

POWER OF THOUGHT

The thought of man is all-powerful and all-pervasive. How else could it have conceived an all-powerful and all-pervasive God?

WHAT IS MYSTERIOUS
Is what is yet to be probed by the human mind.

BHAKTI

The best of bhaktas are child-like. An adult and mature mind can find neither peace nor fulfillment in bhakti.

OLD GODS AS PRESENT SERVANTS

Wind and fire and water were once man’s gods; now they are his servants. As man learns to control more and more the elements of nature, the world of gods will thin out further.

IDOL AND IDEAL
Failure to live up to an ideal makes man to cling to an idol.



EVERY NEW-BORN BABY
Is a triumph of life in its race with death.

HUMANISM’S ULTIMATE VALUE
Like the world religions of today humanism too should have an ultimate value. But it should be of this world and not of any other, and it should find fulfillment in individual as well as corporate life.

GANDHIAN THOUGHT
Has ceased to influence contemporary Indian Society. To those who deny this, it should be pointed out that Gandhi himself felt in the last years of his life that he was cruelly betrayed by his countrymen. Indeed, on one occasion he said : “It may be thought the Negroes that the unadulterated message of non-violence will be delivered to the world. “How true these words have proved to be by the martyrdom of that great Negro – Martin Luther King!