A Letter to a Hindu by Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy
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__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, are in a deep gloom, but those who are given up to fruitless meditations are in a still greater darkness.__ UPANISHADS, FROM VEDAS. Yes, in our time all these things must be cleared away in order that mankind may escape from self-inflicted calamities that have reached an extreme intensity. Whether an Indian seeks liberation from subjection to the English, or anyone else struggles with an oppressor either of his own nationality or of another--whether it be a Negro defending himself against the North Americans; or Persians, Russians, or Turks against the Persian, Russian, or Turkish governments, or any man seeking the greatest welfare for himself and for everybody else--they do not need explanations and |
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