Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India September 1925

And it is in proportion to the capcity of the person doing it." Somebody referred to such instances in the lives of Sri Ramakrishna and the Holy Mother. [...] Even legends and folk-tales—the mirror which truthfully reflects the mind of the people— abound in instructive stories establishing the identity of the Gods of the varying sects and religions. [...] Any one studying ipartially the life and teachings of Jesus Christ would feel the striking similarity and even identity in essentials with the teachings of the Upanishads and the Gita. [...] In spite of the fact that some of the originators and supporters of these movements invariably assert that the motives behind these are exclusively religious we cannot help the observation that in the minds of the ordinary people at least communal considertions provide the zest and sustaining power. [...] The desire for the solution of the mystery of good and evil is manifest in the philosophical investigation of different countries.