WHAT IS HINDUISM?
It is ... the office of Asia to take up the work of human
evolution when Europe comes to a standstill and loses
itself in a clash of vain speculations, barren experiments
and helpless struggles to avoid the consequences of her
own mistakes. Such a time has now come in the world’s
history... the result ... will be no more Asiatic modification
of Western modernism, but some great, new and original
thing of the first importance to the future of human
civilisation.
The later [Abrahamic] religions endeavour to fix the type of
a supreme truth of conduct, erect a system and declare
God’s law through the mouth of an Avatar [God incarnate]
or prophet ... The true divine law, unlike these mental
counterfeits, cannot be a system of rigid ethical
determinations that press into their cast-iron moulds all our
life-movements.
The law divine is truth of life and truth of the spirit and
must take up with a free living plasticity and inspire with
the direct touch of its eternal light each step of our action
and all the complexities of our life-issues. It must not act as
a rule and formula but as an enveloping and penetrating
conscious presence that determines all our thoughts,
activities, feelings, impulsions of will by its infallible power
and knowledge.
Only by our coming into constant touch with the Divine
Consciousness and its absolute Truth can some form of the