If It Be True That Spirit Is

India Is The Meeting-place Of The Religions And Among These Hinduism Alone Is By Itself A Vast And Complex Thing, Not So Much A Religion As A Great Diversified And Yet Subtly Unified Mass Of Spiritual Thought, Realization And Aspiration.

The Yoga We Practice Is Not For Ourselves Alone, But For The Divine; Its Aim Is To Work Out The Will Of The Divine In The World, To Effect A Spiritual Transformation And To Bring Down A Divine Nature And A Divine Life Into The Mental, Vital And Physical Nature And Life Of Humanity. Its Object Is Not Personal Mukti, Although Mukti Is A Necessary Condition Of The Yoga, But The Liberation And Transformation Of The Human Being. It Is Not Personal Ananda, But The Bringing Down Of The Divine Ananda - Christ's Kingdom Of Heaven, Our Satyayuga - Upon The Earth.

Inspiration Is A Slender River Of Brightness Leaping From A Vast And Eternal Knowledge, It Exceeds Reason More Perfectly Than Reason Exceeds The Knowledge Of The Senses.

As Often As Herman Had Witnessed The Slaughter Of Animals And Fish, He Always Had The Same Thought: In Their Behaviour Toward Creatures, All Men Were Nazis. The Smugness With Which Man Could Do With Other Species As He Pleased Exemplified The Most Extreme Racist Theories, The Principle That Might Is Right.

The Highest Aim Of The Aesthetic Being Is To Find The Divine Through Beauty; The Highest Art Is That Which By An Inspired Use Of Significant And Interpretative Form Unseals The Door Of The Spirit.