tific) by which it is still obscured
is essential: not a partial, timid attempt, reckoning with traditions
sanctified by age and with the habits of the people--not such as was
effected in the religious sphere by Guru-Nanak, the founder of the
sect of the Sikhs, and in the Christian world by Luther, and by similar
reformers in other religions--but a fundamental cleansing of religious
consciousness from all ancient religious and modern scientific
superstitions.

If only people freed themselves from their beliefs in all kinds of
Ormuzds, Brahmas, Sabbaoths, and their incarnation as Krishnas and
Christs, from beliefs in Paradises and Hells, in reincarnations and
resurrections, from belief in the interference of the Gods in the
external affairs of the universe, and above all, if they freed
themselves from belief in the infallibility of all the various Vedas,
Bibles, Gospels, Tripitakas, Korans, and the like, and also freed
themselves from blind belief in a variety of scientific teachings about
infinitely small atoms and molecules and in all the infinitely great and
infinitely remote worlds, their movements and origin, as well as from
faith in the infallibility of the scientific law to which humanity is
at present subjected: the historic law, the economic laws, the law of
struggle and survival, and so on--if people only freed themselves from
this terrible accumulation of futile exercises of our lower capacities
of mind and memory called the 'Sciences', and from the innumerable
divisions of all sorts of histories, anthropologies, homiletics,
bacteriologics, jurisprudences, cosmographies, strategies--their name
is legion--and freed themselves from all this harmful, stupifying
ballast--the simple law of love, natural to man, accessible to all and
solving all questions and perplexities, would of itself become clear and
obligatory.

VII

_Children, look at the flowers at your feet; do not trample upon them.
Look at the love in your midst and do not repudiate it._ KRISHNA.

_There is a higher reason which transcends all human minds. It is far
and near. It permeates all the worlds and at the same time is infinitely
higher than they._

_A man who sees that all things are contained in the higher spirit
cannot treat any being with contempt._

_For him to whom all spiritual beings are equal to the highest there can
be no room for deception or grief._

_Those who are ignorant and are devoted to the religious rites only,