Religion Is The Call To Confront Reality;

We Are A Blend Of Dust And Divinity.

God Enters Our Lives When Through Our Creative Interchanges We Make History More Just.

In India There Was A Sense Of Time That Does Not Tick With Modern Clocks, Just As There Is A Knowledge That Is Not Gained Through Science And Empirical Experiments. In The Modern West Knowledge Is Of Objective, Finite Particulars In Historical Time. India Recognizes That Kind Of Useful Information: It Calls It "lower Knowledge." Higher Knowledge (paravidya) Proceeds Differently, Or Rather It Doesn't Proceed At All But Enters History Full-blown On The Morning Of A New Creation.

A Nation Can Assume That The Addition Of The Words "under God" To Its Pledge Of Allegiance Gives Evidence That Its Citizens Actually Believe In God Whereas All It Really Proves Is That They Believe In "believing" In God

I've Spent The Last 50 Years Or So Steeping Myself In The World's Religions, And I've Done My Homework. I've Gone To Each Of The World's Eight Great Religions And Sought Out The Most Profound Scholars I Could Find, And I've Apprenticed Myself To Them And Actually Practiced Each Faith.