VML-8/26/01

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As we find that somehow or other, by the laws of our mental constitution,

we have to associate our ideas of infinity with the image of the blue sky,

or of the sea, so we naturally connect our idea of holiness with the image

of a church, a mosque, or a cross. The Hindus have associated the ideas of

holiness, purity, truth, omnipresence, and such other ideas with different

images and forms. But with this difference that while some people devote

their whole lives to their idol of a church and never rise higher, because

with them religion means an intellectual assent to certain doctrines and

doing good to their fellows, the whole religion of the Hindu is centered in

realization.