In plain words
is it not a nine-gated leather puppet that topples over? Is trusting and believing in this world not itself a superstition? Is swelling with pride at the sight of wealth and rank not itself a superstition? But deeds done with genuine self-confidence are not superstitions. When a reasoned cause can be shown for every matter, everyone will be satisfied — but to call everything one simply dislikes a superstition is nothing but impulsiveness, foolishness, and self-centredness. Just as we cannot live at all without drawing breath, so too we cannot love God without some such means. That too must be accepted as a necessary stage in life.
Childhood is what gives rise to old age — can one call childhood a sin, or youth a sin, while sitting in old age? Idol-worship helps a person experience their own divine nature. Once an aspirant has himself passed beyond the stage of idol-worship, it would be improper even for him to object to it. What advances in the field of Bharatiya paramartha is not a movement from falsehood to truth — it is a movement from truth to truth, from partial truth to complete truth. From the crude worship practised by forest-tribes or primitive peoples, up to the fully-realized worship of the Absolute, the various endeavours that jīvas undertake to attain the principle of completeness and make it their own experience are themselves the sādhanas. Each of these advances some way and reaches a certain stage.
Every jīva is just like a small bird. It flies upward, higher and higher, gaining altitude step by step, until finally, blazing with full radiant splendour, it may soar all the way to the very orb of the sun. The oneness within multiplicity is Nature's own fundamental principle, and Bharatiyas grasped these principles. Other peoples frame a few doctrines, accept those doctrines alone, and then, saying 'follow these,' try to compel their own communities to conform. In human society they hold up a single shirt before everyone and declare that this alone must fit every single person.