healthly humanising results of present- day scientific research. All process of joining this Church or that, this Society or that Society, worshipping this Christ or that Krishna, this fetish or that, will avail nothing. All the dogmatic ideologies of the world have more or less of superstition, stamped on their face. All creeds are simply the efforts to strike out, to rend asunder the veil which covers our eyes. The religions, creeds, denominations are worn by people merely like amulets about the neck. All kinds of virtue and efficacy are ascribed to them and yet, after all, what little we achieve is utterly independent of those pet dreams. So long as any trace of external obligation and categorical imperative “Thou shalf and “Thou shalt not” is in play, there can be no room for spiritual growth of true purity. The Imperative Mood, Second Person, keeps alive in us the limited personality, and wherever there is limitation, there is no Bliss, nor any escape from attraction and repulsion, no salvation from attachment and hatred, no freedom from vacillation and temptation. Spiritual pauperism is produced by forcing religious beliefs on the innocent boys and girls. Spiritual pauperism and religious intolerance (or fanaticism) are, respectively, passive and active states of the same disease. Respect for persons, appearances, titles, riches, learning and forms, is idolatry. Sad, indeed, is the kitchen-religion which allows the Infinite, Immortal Soul to be sullied by the foreigner’s soup. 0, ye wavering, fickle, dubious mind! No more of lukewarm orthodoxy and heterodoxy! Scorch out all doubt and hesitation, all doxies are your creation Why you consider yourself dependent on God, Christ, Mohammed, Buddha, Krishna, or any of the saints of this
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