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The Seers Of Ancient India Had, In Their Experiments And Efforts At Spiritual Training And The Conquest Of The Body, Perfected A Discovery Which In Its Importance To The Future Of Human Knowledge Dwarfs The Divinations Of Newton And Galileo , Even The Discovery Of The Inductive And Experimental Method In Science Was Not More Momentous.

The Language Of The Veda Itself Is Sruti, A Rhythm Not Composed By The Intellect But Heard, A Divine Word That Same Vibrating Out Of The Infinite To The Inner Audience Of The Man Who Had Previously Made Himself Fit Fot The Impersonal Knowledge.

The Whole World Yearns After Freedom, Yet Each Creature Is In Love With His Chains; This Is The First Paradox And Inextricable Knot Of Our Nature.

I Swore That I Would Not Suffer From The World's Grief And The World's Stupidity And Cruelty And Injustice And I Made My Heart As Hard In Endurance As The Nether Millstone And My Mind As A Polished Surface Of Steel. I No Longer Suffered, But Enjoyment Had Passed Away From Me.

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.