The Person Who Knows Only One Religion

While The River Of Life Glides Along Smoothly, It Remains The Same River; Only The Landscape On Either Bank Seems To Change.

Thus One Memory Follows Another Until The Waves Dash Together Over Our Heads, And A Deep Sigh Swells The Breast, Which Warns Us That We Have Forgotten To Breathe In The Midst Of These Pure Thoughts.

And If I Were To Ask Myself From What Literature We Who Have Been Nurtured Almost Exclusively On The Thoughts Of Greeks And Romans, And Of The Semitic Race, The Jewish, May Draw The Corrective Which Is Most Wanted In Order To Make Our Inner Life More Perfect, More Comprehensive, More Universal, In Fact More Truly Human A Life... Again I Should Point To India.

Would You Say That Any One Sacred Book Is Superior To All Others In The World? ... I Say The New Testament, After That, I Should Place The Koran, Which In Its Moral Teachings, Is Hardly More Than A Later Edition Of The New Testament. Then Would Follow According To My Opinion The Old Testament, The Southern Buddhist Tripitaka, The Tao-te-king Of Laotze, The Kings Of Confucius, The Veda And The Avesta.

Even In Heavenly Pleasures He Finds No Satisfaction, The Disciple Who Is Fully Awakened Delights Only In The Destruction Of All Desires.