Purification Is But The Cleaning Of The

A Common Religion Is Not Possible For India, But A Recognition Of A Common Basis For All Religions, And The Growth Of A Liberal, Tolerant Spirit In Religious Matters, Are Possible.

We Have No Right To Pick Out All That Is Noblest And Fairest In Man, To Project These Qualities Into Space, And To Call Them God. We Only Thus Create An Ideal Figure, A Purified, Ennobled, 'magnified' Man.

In Literature And In Art, Alike, This Gloomy Fashion Of Regarding Death Has Been Characteristic Of Christianity. Death Has Been Painted As A Skeleton Grasping A Scythe, A Grinning Skull, A Threatening Figure With Terrible Face And Uplifted Dart, A Bony Scarecrow Shaking An Hourglass - All That Could Alarm And Repel Has Been Gathered Round This Rightly-named King Of Terrors.

Refusal To Believe Until Proof Is Given Is A Rational Position; Denial Of All Outside Of Our Own Limited Experience Is Absurd.

After A Study Of Some Forty Years And More Of The Great Religions Of The World, I Find None So Perfect, None So Scientific, None So Philosophic, And None So Spiritual As The Great Religion Known By The Name Of Hinduism. The More You Know It, The More You Will Love It; The More You Try To Understand It, The More Deeply You Will Value It