Vivekananda Mailing List-9/19/02

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Thus, a tremendous statement is made by all religions; that the human

mind, at certain moments, transcends not only the limitations of the

senses, but also the power of reasoning. It then comes face to face

with facts which it could never have sensed, could never hive

reasoned out. These facts are the basis of all the religions of the

world. Of course we have the right to challenge these facts, to put

them to the test of reason. Nevertheless, all the existing religions

of the world claim for the human mind this peculiar power of

transcending the limits of the senses and the limits of reason; and

this power they put forward as a statement of fact.