My God Is Love And Sweetly Suffers

Those Who Have Advanced Rise To The Mind Which Is In The Head, - They Have The Play Of Their Mental Movements In The Head Itself. But All These Are Inside The Body; Man Is, As It Were, Shut Up In A Box, His Entire Consciousness Is Confined Within The Organism. This Imprisonment Has To Be Undone.

Each Religion Has Helped Mankind. Paganism Increased In Man The Light Of Beauty, The Largeness And Height Of His Life, His Aim At A Many-sided Perfection; Christianity Gave Him Some Vision Of Divine Love And Charity; Buddhism Has Shown Him A Noble Way To Be Wiser, Gentler, Purer, Judaism And Islam How To Be Religiously Faithful In Action And Zealously Devoted To God; Hinduism Has Opened To Him The Largest And Profoundest Spiritual Possibilities.

She Saw Too That Man Has The Power Of Exceeding Himself, Of Becoming Himself More Entirely And Profoundly Than He Is, - Truths Which Have Only Recently Begun To Be Seen In Europe And Seem Even Now Too Great For Its Common Intelligence.

The Consciousness Of The Supreme Purusha Remains Above, But In The Mind There May Be A Purusha Consciousness Which They Call The Cosmic Consciousness - It Is Wide, All-pervading, One. Outside This Goes On The Play Of Prakriti.

The Aggressive And Quite Illogical Idea Of A Single Religion For All Mankind, A Religion Universal By The Very Force Of Its Narrowness, One Set Of Dogmas, One Cult, One System Of Ceremonies, One Ecclesiastical Ordinance, One Array Of Prohibitions And Injunctions Which All Minds Must Accept On Peril Of Persecution By Men And Spiritual Rejection Or Eternal Punishment By God, That Grotesque Creation Of Human Unreason Which Has Been The Parent Of So Much Intolerance, Cruelty And Obscurantism And Aggressive Fanaticism, Has Never Been Able To Take Firm Hold Of The Indian Mentality.