In English
Although some religions of the rest of the world show us a slightly different path and differ from each other in the matter of detail and sometimes seem to differ somewhat, only apparently, in the matter of their destination, we have to accept and believe that the essential content of all these religions is one and the same and that relates to the Divine . Although the human body is made of many different organs, we do realise that the heart is the essential basis and support for all these organs. It supplies the life blood to all other organs. In the same manner, we certainly see many different religions all round the world; but we have to accept that the Indian viewpoint is like the heart which supplies the life blood to all other religions in the world. You may have some doubts when I describe the situation in this manner. The doubts are somewhat of this nature: Why is it that great saints, great men of religion were born only in India, and the them-selves were born in India? Why is it that these and people who expounded them were not born in other countries? God is present everywhere. God is omnipresent. Therefore, , which simply constitute the breath of God, are also omnipresent and should there-fore be everywhere. The sounds of , the essence of , the fragrance of are indeed to be found all over the world. Here is a small example. When did we find out that the earth has got the power to attract? When a Western scientist by name Newton through his experiment, through his intelligence and through his work, discovered that there is an attracting power called gravitation, natural to the earth. From that day, we started believing that earth has the power to attract. But did not the earth have the power to attract before Newton? The phenomenon of gravitation surely could not have had a separate beginning. In fact, ever since earth came into existence, it should have had the power to attract. In the same manner, as one single Western individual, by name Newton, after his efforts and after his research, has uncovered the existing fact that earth has the power to attract, so also the fact that the are the life-breath which were given to us by God was something which had been uncovered and found out by the efforts of Indian saints. Just as there is an amount of truth in the statement that Newton, by his effort and by his research, has discovered that earth has the power to attract, exactly the same amount of truth is also contained in the statement that Indian saints and citizens of India, by their efforts and by their research, have discovered that the and sounds of the and the inner meanings that are contained in the are God-given. In the same manner, intelligent people, belonging to one particular country discovering something relating to Nature and people belonging to another country discovering again something else relating to the external world, are on the same footing as intelligent people in this country discovering something spiritual. This practice of citizens of each country discovering something new and presenting their discoveries to the rest of the world has been a time-honoured phenomenon all the world over. We should really not utilise this situation to regard either the philosophy of a particular country or the spiritual path adopted by that country as being distinctive and the monopoly of that country. Such truths really belong to the whole world.