Vedanta Monthly Message of the East February 1926

MESSAGE OF THE EAST And behold the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the East. [...] She saw that the complexity of the universe could not be explained in the present terms of manor seen by his superficial sight that there were other powers behind other powers within man himself of which he is normally unaware that he is"THE MESSAGE OF THE EAST 45 conscious opr of a small part of himself that the invisble always surrounds the visible the supra-sensible the sensible even a [...] The decline was the ebmovement of a cretive spirit which can only be understood by seeing it in the full-tide of its greatness; the renaissance is the return of the tide and it is the same spirit that is likely to animate it although the forms it takes may be quite.new. [...] Perhaps there was too much of religion in one sense the word is English smacks too much of things external bit if we give to religion the sense of the following of the spiritual impulge in its fulness and define spirituality as the attempt to know and live in the highest Self the divine then all-embracing unity — and to raise life in all its parts to the divinest possible val.' ues then i [...] From the instincts of kindness pity fealty to family and race ; the love of liberty ; the mystical yearnings for spiritual things ; the desire for fuller expression of the crative faculties ; the impulses of service to community and nation are moulded the ideals of our people.