Age New Spirituality - Inspirational Stories ( Part 94 )

My religion is to learn.I read my Bible better in the lightcontain the truths. They teach us the immortality of the
of your Bible and the dark prophecies of my religionsoul. In every country and every human breast there is
become brighter when compared with those of youra natural desire to find a stable equilibrium --something
prophets. Truth has always been universal. If I alonethat does not change. We cannot find it in nature,for all
were to have six fingers on my hand while all of youthe universe is nothing but an infinite mass of changes.
had only five,you would not think that my hand wasBut to infer from that that nothing unchanging exists is
the true intent of nature,but rather that it was abnormalto fall into the error of the Southern school of
and diseased. Just so with religion. If one creed aloneBuddhists and the Charvakas,which latter believe that
were to be true and all the others untrue,you wouldall is matter and nothing mind, that all religion is a
have a right to say that that religion was diseased; ifcheat,and morality and goodness, useless superstitions.
one religion is true, all the others must be true. Thus theThe Vedanta philosophy teaches that man is not
Hindu religion is your property as well as mine. Of thebound by his five senses. They only know the
two hundred and ninety millions of people inhabitingpresent,and neither the future nor the past; but as the
India,only two millions are Christians, sixty millionspresent signifies both past and future, and all three are
Mohammedans and all the rest are Hindus.only demarcations of time, the present also would be
The Hindus found their creed upon the ancientunknown if it were not for something above the
Vedas,a word derived from Vid, "to know". These aresenses,something independent of time, which unifies
a series of books which, to our minds, contain thethe past and the future in the present.
essence of all religion; but we do not think they alone