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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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