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This tendency in religion is most harmful. A man gets a new and

better idea. and then he looks back on those he has given up, and

forthwith decides that they were mischievous and unnecessary. He

never thinks that, however crude they may appear from his present

point of view, they were very useful to him, that they were necessary

for him to reach his present state, and that everyone of us has to

grow in a similar fashion, living first on crude ideas, taking

benefit from them, and then arriving at a higher standard. With the

oldest theories, therefore, the Advaita is friendly. Dualism and all

systems that had preceded it are accepted by the Advaita not in a

patronizing way, but with the conviction that they are true

manifestations of the same truth, and that they all lead to the same

conclusions as the Advaita has reached.

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Today we continue:

 

PRACTICAL VEDANTA IV

(Delivered in London, 18 November 1896)

 

This lecture is found in Vol. II of the Complete Works, pg. 328-340.

 

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them.

 

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