Purification Is But The Cleaning

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.

Britons Are Good, Though Often Brutal, Colonists Where They Come Into Relations With Entirely Uncivilized Tribes Whose Past Is So Remote As To Be Forgotten. But They Trample With Their Heavy Boots Over The Sensitive, Delicate Susceptibilities Of An Ancient, Highly Civilized And Cultured Nation, Such As India.

As A Man May Be Born With A Mathematical Faculty, And By Training That Faculty Year After Year May Immensely Increase His Mathematical Capacity, So May A Man Be Born With Certain Faculties Within Him, Faculties Belonging To The Soul, Which He Can Develop By Training And By Discipline.

You Should Always Take A Religion At Its Best And Not At Its Worst, From Its Highest Teachings And Not From The Lowest Practices Of Some Of Its Adherents.

The Highest Hindu Intellectual Training Was Based On The Practice Of Yoga, And Produced, As Its Fruit, Those Marvellous Philosophical Systems, The Six Darshanas And The Brahma Sutras, Which Are Still The Delight Of Scholars And The Inspiration Of Occultists And Mystics.