We believe in a God, the Father of the universe, infinite and omnipotent. But if our soul at last becomes perfect, it also must become infinite. But there is no room for two infinite unconditional beings, and hence we believe in a Personal God, and we ourselves are He. These are the three stages which every religion has taken. First we see God in the far beyond,then we come nearer to Him and give Him omnipresence so that we live in Him; and at last we recognize that we are He. The idea of an objective God is not untrue -- in fact,every idea of God,and hence every religion, is true, as each is but a different stage in the journey, the aim of which is the perfect conception of the Vedas.



Hence, too, we not only tolerate, but we Hindus accept every religion, praying in the mosque of the Mohammedans, worshipping before the fire of the Zoroastrians,and kneeling before the cross of the Christians, knowing that all the religions, from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of them marking a stage of progress. We gather all these flowers and bind them with the twine of love, making a wonderful bouquet of worship.

If I am God, then my soul is a temple of the Highest, and my every motion should be a worship -- love for love's sake, duty for duty's sake,without hope of reward or fear of punishment. Thus my religion means expansion, and expansion means realization and perception in the highest sense -- no mumbling words or genuflections. Man is to become divine, realizing the divine more and more from day to day in an endless progress.*

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