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You may deliver great intellectual discourses on God and on all things

under the sun, become great rationalists and prove to your satisfaction

that all these accounts of the Avataras of God as man are nonsense. But

let us come for a moment to practical common sense. What is there

behind this kind of remarkable intellect? Zero, nothing, simply so much

froth. When next you hear a man delivering a great intellectual lecture

against this worship of the Avataras of God, get hold of him and ask

what his idea of God is, what he understands by " omnipotence " ,

" omnipresence " , and all similar terms, beyond the spelling of the

words. He really means nothing by them; he cannot formulate as their

meaning any idea unaffected by his own human nature; he is no better

off in this matter than the man in the street who has not read a single

book. That man in the street, however, is quiet and does not disturb

the peace of the world, while this big talker creates disturbance and

misery among mankind.

 

 

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