When We Have Passed Beyond Knowings, Then

Spirituality Is The Master Key Of The Indian Mind. It Is This Dominant Inclination Of India Which Gives Character To All The Expressions Of Her Culture. In Fact, They Have Grown Out Of Her Inborn Spiritual Tendency Of Which Her Religion Is A Natural Out Flowering. The Indian Mind Has Always Realized That The Supreme Is The Infinite And Perceived That To The Soul In Nature The Infinite Must Always Present Itself In An Infinite Variety Of Aspects.

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.

I Say, Of The Congress, Then, This - That Its Aims Are Mistaken, That The Spirit In Which It Proceeds Towards Their Accomplishment Is Not A Spirit Of Sincerity And Whole-heartedness, And That The Methods It Has Chosen Are Not The Right Methods, And The Leaders In Whom It Trusts, Not The Right Sort Of Men To Be Leaders; - In Brief, That We Are At Present The Blind Led, If Not By The Blind, At Any Rate By The One-eyed.

Outside And Above The Mind There Is The Play Of A Consciousness Which Is Lighted By The Higher Truth, But Man Is Not Conscious Of It And Of That He Has To Be Conscious.

The Existence Of Poverty Is The Proof Of An Unjust And Ill-organised Society, And Our Public Charities Are But The First Tardy Awakening In The Conscience Of A Robber.