justifications of old religious superstitions such as have been
formulated by your Vivekanandas, Baba Bharatis, and others, or in
the Christian world by a number of similar interpreters and
exponents of things that nobody needs; nor the innumerable
scientific theories about matters not only unnecessary but for
the most part harmful. (In the spiritual realm nothing is
indifferent: what is not useful is harmful.) What are wanted for
the Indian as for the Englishman, the Frenchman, the German, and
the Russian, are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts
of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for
submarine navigation and aerial navigation, nor powerful
explosives, nor all sorts of conveniences to add to the enjoyment
of the rich, ruling classes; nor new schools and universities
with innumerable faculties of science, nor an augmentation of
papers and books, nor gramophones and cinematographs, nor those
childish and for the most part corrupt stupidities termed art--but
one thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear
truth which finds place in every soul that is not stupefied by
religious and scientific superstitions--the truth that for our
life one law is valid--the law of love, which brings the highest
happiness to every individual as well as to all mankind. Free
your minds from those overgrown, mountainous imbecilities which
hinder your recognition of it, and at once the truth will emerge
from amid the pseudo-religious nonsense that has been smothering
it: the indubitable, eternal truth inherent in man, which is one
and the same in all the great religions of the world. It will in
due time emerge and make its way to general recognition, and the
nonsense that has obscured it will disappear of itself, and with
it will go the evil from which humanity now suffers.