Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

The Brahman of the Vedantins the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians the Buddha and the Law of the Buddhists the Jehova of the Jews the Father-iHeaven of the Christians and the Alla of the Muslims are different names of the same Eternal Principle. [...] It is impressing on us the fundamental unity of all religions by pointing out that the genius of the people the spirit of the age and the need of the hour determine the emphasis in each religion. [...] The most effective method of changing creed and conduct is a comunal consciousness of imperfection and contradiction in the philosophy of life and of the necessity of adjusting creed to the expansive knowledge of truth and conduct to the widening circle of social life. [...] Just as the diffeent perspectives of a solid object are true from particular positions but none can take the place of the rest nor does any represent the whole truth about the object in question do the different religions express adequately particular aspects of divine truth absolutely or relatively to the culture of the age or need of the time but none embodies all the aspects of the truth no [...] When then we talk of a hamony of religions do we mean that we are to attempt a synthesis of the good points of the different religions into a new faith ? And what about the pratices ? Shall we build temples like the Hindus and pray like the Musalmans and observe the fasts and festivals of the Christians ? Shall we celebrate the birthdays of all the prophets and the saints without exception