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Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.
The Renaissance in India (1918)
Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinite is native to it.
The Renaissance in India (1918)
Spirituality is not necessarily exclusive; it can be and in its fullness must be all-inclusive.
The Renaissance in India (1918)
Everywhere there is, at most, only a beginning of beginnings.
The Renaissance in India (1918)
To attempt to penetrate through the indeterminate confusion of present tendencies and first efforts in order to foresee the exact forms the new creation will take, would be an effort of very doubtful utility.
The Renaissance in India (1918)
The Titaness has not yet arisen.
The Renaissance in India (1918)
Religions, creeds and forms are only a characteristic outward sign of the spiritual impulsion and religion itself is the intensive action by which it tries to find its inward force. Its expansive movement comes in the thought which it throws out on life, the ideals which open up new horizons and which the intellect accepts and life labours to assimilate.
The Renaissance in India (1918)
Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest religion becomes no more than a broad sect or branch of the one universal religion, by which we shall understand in the future man's seeking for the eternal, the divine, the greater self, the source of unity and his attempt to arrive at some equation, some increasing approximation of the values of human life with the eternal and the divine values.
The Renaissance in India (1918)